JLSEC-2025-154 High 7.5
The keyfile settings backend in GNOME GLib (aka glib2.0) before 2.60.0 creates directories using...
The keyfile settings backend in GNOME GLib (aka glib2.0) before 2.60.0 creates directories using g_file_make_directory_with_parents (kfsb->dir, NULL, NULL) and files using g_file_replace_contents (kfsb->file, contents, length, NULL, FALSE, G_FILE_CREATE_REPLACE_DESTINATION, NULL, NULL, NULL). Consequently, it does not properly restrict directory (and file) permissions. Instead, for directories, 0777 permissions are used; for files, default file permissions are used. This is similar to CVE-2019-12450.
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2019-07/msg00022.html
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=931234#12
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/commit/5e4da714f00f6bfb2ccd6d73d61329c6f3a08429
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/issues/1658
- https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/glib/merge_requests/450
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/r58af02e294bd07f487e2c64ffc0a29b837db5600e33b6e698b9d696b%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/rf4c02775860db415b4955778a131c2795223f61cb8c6a450893651e4%40%3Cissues.bookkeeper.apache.org%3E
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/07/msg00029.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/08/msg00004.html
- https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20190806-0003/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4049-1/
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4049-2/