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…

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.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

1.8% · top 21% of all CVEs (6 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.7.

Weakness

• n/a
• CWE-755 (opens in a new tab)All about CWE-755 and its CVEs

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (7)

• openSUSE-SU-2019:1699 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• openSUSE-SU-2019:1697 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
• USN-4053-1 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTUx_transferred
• [oss-security] 20190709 Privileged File Access from Desktop Applications (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-6ed5523cc0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• FEDORA-2019-e6b02af8b8 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
• https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred

Sources

The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.

• CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
• CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
• NVD (opens in a new tab)
• FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
• OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
• GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

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Record last updated 4 Aug 2024, 23:17 UTC.