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CVE-2019-12449

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-05-29 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-755

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 29, 30
• GNOME gvfs: from 1.29.4 through 1.41.2
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0, 15.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/

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