CVE-2019-12447 — Improper Ownership Management in Gvfs

CWE-282 — Improper Ownership Management9 documents7 sources
Severity
7.3HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.4%
top 38.00%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
5
Gnome GvfsDebian GvfsCanonical Ubuntu Linux+2 more
Timeline
PublishedMay 29
Latest updateMay 24

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.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 2.1 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages5 packages

▶Debiangnome/gvfs< 1.38.1-4+3
▶Ubuntugnome/gvfs< 1.28.2-1ubuntu1~16.04.3+1
▶NVDgnome/gvfs1.29.4 — 1.41.2
▶debiandebian/gvfs< gvfs 1.38.1-4 (bookworm)
▶NVDopensuse/leap15.0, 15.1+1

Also affects: Fedora 29, 30, Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 18.10, 19.04

Patches

Patch: gitlab.gnome.org ↗Patch: gitlab.gnome.org ↗

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-4hjh-mpfm-qhm5: An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1↗2022-05-24
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OSV
gvfs vulnerabilities↗2019-07-09
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OSV
CVE-2019-12447: An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1↗2019-05-29
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📋Vendor Advisories

3
Ubuntu
GVfs vulnerabilities↗2019-07-09
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Red Hat
gvfs: mishandling of file ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c↗2019-05-29
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Debian
CVE-2019-12447: gvfs - An issue was discovered in GNOME gvfs 1.29.4 through 1.41.2. daemon/gvfsbackenda...↗2019
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12447 gvfs: mishandling of file ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c↗2019-07-10
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Bugzilla
CVE-2019-12447 gvfs: mishandling of file ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c [fedora-all]↗2019-07-10
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