CVE-2019-12447

HIGH

GNOME gvfs <1.41.2 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_suse
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
Third Party Advisory vendor-advisory x_refsource_ubuntu
https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/
Mailing List, Third Party Advisory mailing-list x_refsource_mlist
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3

Scores

CVSS v3 7.3
EPSS 0.0042
EPSS Percentile 62.1%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Details

Status published
Products (9)
canonical/ubuntu_linux 16.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.04
canonical/ubuntu_linux 18.10
canonical/ubuntu_linux 19.04
fedoraproject/fedora 29
fedoraproject/fedora 30
gnome/gvfs 1.29.4 - 1.41.2
opensuse/leap 15.0
opensuse/leap 15.1
Published May 29, 2019
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026