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CVE-2019-12450

• Severity: critical (CVSS 9.8 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.6% 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-276

Description

file_copy_fallback in gio/gfile.c in GNOME GLib 2.15.0 through 2.61.1 does not properly restrict file permissions while a copy operation is in progress. Instead, default permissions are used.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04
• Debian Linux: 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 30
• GNOME GLib: from 2.15.0 through 2.61.1
• openSUSE Leap: 15.0
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 8.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Eus: 8.1, 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Tus: 8.2, 8.4, 8.6

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00076.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3530
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/d8f8f4d637ce43f8699ba94c9b7648beda0ca174
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00013.html
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/2W4WIOAGO3M743M5KZLVQZM3NGHQDYLI/
• https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190606-0003/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4014-1/
• https://usn.ubuntu.com/4014-2/
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-06/msg00076.html
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:3530
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/d8f8f4d637ce43f8699ba94c9b7648beda0ca174
• https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/06/msg00013.html

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