CVE-2019-12449

gvfs: mishandling of file's user and group ownership in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c due to unavailability of root privileges

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Severity

Moderate

Red Hat Product Security

4.8

CVSS 3.0

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Published · May 29, 2019

Updated · June 27, 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.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 4.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

CWE-282 · Improper Ownership Management