CVE-2019-14822
What it is
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.
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account. High risk of data exposure, data tampering.
- Exploit odds
- 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.4% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 7.1 HIGH (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.4% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-862 · Missing authorization
- Record status
- Modified
Affected
- Ibus Project Ibus < 1.5.22
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0
- Redhat Enterprise Linux 8.0
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 16.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 18.04
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux 19.10
- Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit 8.8
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 7.1
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- Low
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Scope
- Unchanged
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- None
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
Is it in your code?
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Fix and advisories
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717958
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717958
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/
- https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html