CVE-2019-12449

MEDIUM

Opensuse Leap < 1.41.2 - Improper Exception Handling

Title source: rule

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.

References (7)

[Third Party Advisory] https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/

[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, Third Party Advisory] http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3

[Patch, Vendor Advisory] https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/

[Mailing List, Third Party Advisory] https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/

Scores

CVSS v3 5.7

EPSS 0.0060

EPSS Percentile 69.1%

Attack Vector NETWORK

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

Classification

CWE

CWE-755

Status published

Affected Products (9)

opensuse/leap

opensuse/leap

gnome/gvfs < 1.41.2

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

canonical/ubuntu_linux

fedoraproject/fedora

fedoraproject/fedora

Timeline

Published May 29, 2019

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026