Medium severity · published May 29, 2019
CVE-2019-12449
An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2
5.7
CVSS
1.8%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c mishandles a file's user and group ownership during move (and copy with G_FILE_COPY_ALL_METADATA) operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, because root privileges are unavailable.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
Attack vector
Network
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
Required
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)1.8% · higher than 79% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
FE
Fedora · Fedoraproject
29; 30 · source: NVD
GV
Gvfs · Gnome
1.29.4 through 1.41.2 · source: NVD
LE
Leap · Opensuse
15.0; 15.1 · source: NVD
UL
Ubuntu Linux · Canonical
16.04; 18.04; 18.10; 19.04 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-12449
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2019-12449
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/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
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/
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