CVE-2019-12449

21

FAUCET Score

CVE-2019-12449 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting GNOME gvfs versions 1.29.4 through 1.41.2, specifically impacting Canonical, Fedora, GNOME, and OpenSUSE products. The flaw in daemon/gvfsbackendadmin.c allows for mishandling of file user and group ownership during move or copy operations from admin:// to file:// URIs, as root privileges are unavailable. This could lead to a high impact on confidentiality (CVSS: 5.7 MEDIUM). There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage for this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

Vendor	Product	Version(s)	CPE
		>= 1.29.4, <= 1.41.2CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:a:gnome:gvfs::::::::
		16.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::lts:::
		18.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04::::lts:::
		18.10CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.10:::::::*
		19.04CPE matchmatch criteria	cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:19.04:::::::*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

5.7MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction

REQUIRED

Scope

UNCHANGED

Confidentiality Impact

HIGH

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

NONE

Exploitability Score

2.1

Impact Score

3.6

CvssVersion

3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score

1.84%

Probability of exploitation in next 30 days

EPSS Percentile

76.8%

Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group

As of 2026-07-27

Model: v2026.06.15

This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0184 is in the 97th percentile among its peer group of 15,239 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.1 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Patch Available

Vendor Patches (31)

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: accountsservice-0:0.6.50-8.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: appstream-data-0:8-20191129.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: baobab-0:3.28.0-4.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: clutter-0:1.26.2-8.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: evince-0:3.28.4-4.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gdm-1:3.28.3-29.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gjs-0:1.56.2-4.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-boxes-0:3.28.5-8.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-control-center-0:3.28.2-19.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-menus-0:3.13.3-11.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-online-accounts-0:3.28.2-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-remote-desktop-0:0.1.6-8.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-session-0:3.28.1-8.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-settings-daemon-0:3.32.0-9.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-shell-0:3.32.2-14.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-software-0:3.30.6-3.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-terminal-0:3.28.3-1.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gnome-tweaks-0:3.28.1-7.el8

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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gsettings-desktop-schemas-0:3.32.0-4.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gtk3-0:3.22.30-5.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: gvfs-0:1.36.2-8.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: LibRaw-0:0.19.5-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libvncserver-0:0.9.11-14.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: libxslt-0:1.1.32-4.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mozjs52-0:52.9.0-2.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mozjs60-0:60.9.0-4.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: mutter-0:3.32.2-34.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: nautilus-0:3.28.1-12.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vala-0:0.40.19-1.el8

redhatpatch availablevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8Fixed in: vinagre-0:3.22.0-21.el8

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api

Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Fixed in: gvfs

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2019-12449Moderate

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

References

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00008.html

Third Party Advisory

lists.opensuse.org / opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00009.html

Third Party Advisory

gitlab.gnome.org / GNOME/gvfs/commit/409619412e11be146a31b9a99ed965925f1aabb8

PatchVendor Advisory

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/FP6BFQUPQRVRRFIYHFWWB6RHJNEB4LGQ

lists.fedoraproject.org / archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/M2DQVOL5H5BVLXYCEB763DCIYJQ7ZUQ2

usn.ubuntu.com / 4053-1

Third Party Advisory

openwall.com / lists/oss-security/2019/07/09/3

Mailing ListThird Party Advisory