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Vulnerability Details : CVE-2019-12449

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.
Publish Date : 2019-05-29 Last Update Date : 2020-08-24
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- CVSS Scores & Vulnerability Types

CVSS Score
3.5
Confidentiality Impact Partial (There is considerable informational disclosure.)
Integrity Impact None (There is no impact to the integrity of the system)
Availability Impact None (There is no impact to the availability of the system.)
Access Complexity Medium (The access conditions are somewhat specialized. Some preconditions must be satistified to exploit)
Authentication ???
Gained Access None
Vulnerability Type(s)
CWE ID 755

- Related OVAL Definitions

Title Definition Id Class Family
RHSA-2020:1766: GNOME security, bug fix, and enhancement update (Moderate) oval:com.redhat.rhsa:def:20201766 unix
OVAL (Open Vulnerability and Assessment Language) definitions define exactly what should be done to verify a vulnerability or a missing patch. Check out the OVAL definitions if you want to learn what you should do to verify a vulnerability.

- Products Affected By CVE-2019-12449

# Product Type Vendor Product Version Update Edition Language
1 OS Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
2 OS Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
3 OS Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.10 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
4 OS Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.04 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
5 OS Fedoraproject Fedora 29 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
6 OS Fedoraproject Fedora 30 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
7 Application Gnome Gvfs * * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
8 OS Opensuse Leap 15.0 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities
9 OS Opensuse Leap 15.1 * * * Version Details Vulnerabilities

- Number Of Affected Versions By Product

Vendor Product Vulnerable Versions
Canonical Ubuntu Linux 4
Fedoraproject Fedora 2
Gnome Gvfs 1
Opensuse Leap 2

- References For CVE-2019-12449

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4053-1/
UBUNTU USN-4053-1
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3
MLIST [oss-security] 20190709 Privileged File Access from Desktop Applications
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ/
FEDORA FEDORA-2019-e6b02af8b8
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2/
FEDORA FEDORA-2019-6ed5523cc0
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1699
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html
SUSE openSUSE-SU-2019:1697

- Metasploit Modules Related To CVE-2019-12449

There are not any metasploit modules related to this CVE entry (Please visit www.metasploit.com for more information)


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