CVE-2019-12449

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CVSS 3.1

5.7 medium

EPSS

2%p78

Published

May 29, 2019 (May 29, 2019)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

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.

Vendors: gnome canonical fedoraproject opensuse
Products: gvfs, ubuntu linux, fedora, leap
Weakness: CWE-755
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (1.8%)

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