An incorrect permission check in the admin backend in gvfs before version 1.39.4 was found that allows reading and modify arbitrary files by privileged users without asking for password when no authentication agent is running. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious programs running under privileges of users belonging to the wheel group to further escalate its privileges by modifying system files without user's knowledge. Successful exploitation requires uncommon system configuration.

The remote Oracle Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the ELSA-2019-2145 advisory.

  - An incorrect permission check in the admin backend in gvfs before version 1.39.4 was found that allows     reading and modify arbitrary files by privileged users without asking for password when no authentication     agent is running. This vulnerability can be exploited by malicious programs running under privileges of     users belonging to the wheel group to further escalate its privileges by modifying system files without     user's knowledge. Successful exploitation requires uncommon system configuration. (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote CentOS Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the CESA-2019:1517 advisory.

  - gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files     without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05, has gvfs packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - An incorrect permission check in the admin backend in     gvfs before version 1.39.4 was found that allows reading     and modify arbitrary files by privileged users without     asking for password when no authentication agent is     running. This vulnerability can be exploited by     malicious programs running under privileges of users     belonging to the wheel group to further escalate its     privileges by modifying system files without user's     knowledge. Successful exploitation requires uncommon     system configuration. (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

The remote NewStart CGSL host, running version CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04, has gvfs packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability:

  - An incorrect permission check in the admin backend in     gvfs before version 1.39.4 was found that allows reading     and modify arbitrary files by privileged users without     asking for password when no authentication agent is     running. This vulnerability can be exploited by     malicious programs running under privileges of users     belonging to the wheel group to further escalate its     privileges by modifying system files without user's     knowledge. Successful exploitation requires uncommon     system configuration. (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

According to the version of the gvfs packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

  - An incorrect permission check in the admin backend in     gvfs before version 1.39.4 was found that allows     reading and modify arbitrary files by privileged users     without asking for password when no authentication     agent is running. This vulnerability can be exploited     by malicious programs running under privileges of users     belonging to the wheel group to further escalate its     privileges by modifying system files without user's     knowledge. Successful exploitation requires uncommon     system configuration.(CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

An update for gvfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

GVFS is the GNOME Desktop Virtual File System layer that allows users to easily access local and remote data using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and other protocols. GVFS integrates with the GNOME I/O (GIO) abstraction layer.

Security Fix(es) :

* gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

Additional Changes :

For detailed information on changes in this release, see the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.7 Release Notes linked from the References section.

Security Fix(es) :

  - gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows     privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files     without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 7 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:2145 advisory.

  - gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files     without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

From Red Hat Security Advisory 2019:1517 :

An update for gvfs is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.

Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE link(s) in the References section.

GVFS is the GNOME Desktop Virtual File System layer that allows users to easily access local and remote data using File Transfer Protocol (FTP), Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP), Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV), Common Internet File System (CIFS), Server Message Block (SMB), and other protocols. GVFS integrates with the GNOME I/O (GIO) abstraction layer.

Security Fix(es) :

* gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE page(s) listed in the References section.

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the RHSA-2019:1517 advisory.

  - gvfs: Incorrect authorization in admin backend allows privileged users to read and modify arbitrary files     without prompting for password (CVE-2019-3827)

Note that Nessus has not tested for this issue but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

This update for gvfs fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerability fixed :

  - CVE-2019-3827: Fixed an issue whereby an unprivileged     user was not prompted to give a password when acessing     root owned files. (bsc#1125084)

This update was imported from the SUSE:SLE-15:Update update project.

This update for gvfs fixes the following issues :

Security vulnerability fixed :

CVE-2019-3827: Fixed an issue whereby an unprivileged user was not prompted to give a password when acessing root owned files.
(bsc#1125084)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the SUSE security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

It was discovered that GVfs incorrectly handled certain inputs. An attacker could possibly use this issue to access sensitive information.

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Ubuntu security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
180833	Oracle Linux 7 : gvfs (ELSA-2019-2145)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
145640	CentOS 8 : gvfs (CESA-2019:1517)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
132442	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.05 / MAIN 5.05 : gvfs Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0238)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
131423	NewStart CGSL CORE 5.04 / MAIN 5.04 : gvfs Vulnerability (NS-SA-2019-0224)	Nessus	NewStart CGSL Local Security Checks	high
130865	EulerOS 2.0 SP5 : gvfs (EulerOS-SA-2019-2156)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	high
128364	CentOS 7 : gvfs (CESA-2019:2145)	Nessus	CentOS Local Security Checks	high
128221	Scientific Linux Security Update : gvfs on SL7.x x86_64 (20190806)	Nessus	Scientific Linux Local Security Checks	high
127684	RHEL 7 : gvfs (RHSA-2019:2145)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
127591	Oracle Linux 8 : gvfs (ELSA-2019-1517)	Nessus	Oracle Linux Local Security Checks	high
126026	RHEL 8 : gvfs (RHSA-2019:1517)	Nessus	Red Hat Local Security Checks	high
122497	openSUSE Security Update : gvfs (openSUSE-2019-261)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	medium
122342	SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 Security Update : gvfs (SUSE-SU-2019:0438-1)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	high
122153	Ubuntu 18.04 LTS : GVfs vulnerability (USN-3888-1)	Nessus	Ubuntu Local Security Checks	high

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