CVE-2019-12447: An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2

High severity · published May 29, 2019

CVE-2019-12447

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2

7.3

CVSS

1.8%

EPSS

On KEV

Description

An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles file ownership because setfsuid is not used.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack vector

Network

Complexity

Low

Privileges

Low

User interaction

Required

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

None

Scope

Unchanged

Exploitation

Is it being used?

Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 78% of CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet

CISA KEVNot listed

Ransomware campaign useNot known

Affected products

Which versions

Fedora · Fedoraproject

29; 30 · source: NVD

Gvfs · Gnome

1.29.4 through 1.41.2 · source: NVD

Leap · Opensuse

15.0; 15.1 · source: NVD

Ubuntu Linux · Canonical

16.04; 18.04; 18.10; 19.04 · source: NVD

Affected product

Ubuntu Linux

Canonical

All Ubuntu Linux CVEs

References

NVD

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12447

CVE.org

https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12447

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html

Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html

Mailing List

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3

Patch

https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/d7d362995aa0cb8905c8d5c2a2a4c305d2ffff80

lists.fedoraproject.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/

lists.fedoraproject.org

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/