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.

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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-4058 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4053-1 GVfs vulnerabilities
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Sun, 13 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

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{'score': 0.00844}

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{'score': 0.00515}


cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-04T23:17:40.051Z

Reserved: 2019-05-29T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-12449

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-05-29T17:29:00.383

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:22:52.403

Link: CVE-2019-12449

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-05-29T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-12449 - Bugzilla

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