CVE-2019-14822Missing Authorization in Project Ibus

Severity
7.1HIGHNVD
EPSS
0.2%
top 62.37%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedNov 25
Latest updateMay 24

Description

A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user due to a misconfiguration in the DBus server setup. A local attacker may use this flaw to intercept all keystrokes of a victim user who is using the graphical interface, change the input method engine, or modify other input related configurations of the victim user.

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:NExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 5.2

Affected Packages4 packages

NVDibus_project/ibus< 1.5.22
Debianibus_project/ibus< 1.5.21-1+3
CVEListV5ibus_project/ibusibus versions before 1.5.22

Also affects: Ubuntu Linux 16.04, 18.04, 19.10, Enterprise Linux 7.0, 8.0

Patches

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6vhv-qmhp-gxj3: A flaw was discovered in ibus that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method calls to the ibus bus of another user due to a misconfigura2022-05-24
CVEList
CVE-2019-14822: A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 12019-11-25
OSV
CVE-2019-14822: A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 12019-11-25

📋Vendor Advisories

4
Ubuntu
IBus vulnerability2020-03-24
Ubuntu
IBus vulnerability2019-09-16
Red Hat
ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user2019-09-13
Debian
CVE-2019-14822: ibus - A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivil...2019

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14822 ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user [fedora-all]2019-09-13
Bugzilla
CVE-2019-14822 ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user2019-06-06
CVE-2019-14822 — Missing Authorization in Project Ibus | cvebase