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.
Published: 2019-11-25
Score: 7.1 High
EPSS: < 1% Very Low
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-4525-1 ibus security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2019-5950 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.
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4134-1 IBus vulnerability
Ubuntu USN Ubuntu USN USN-4134-3 IBus vulnerability
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Canonical Ubuntu Linux
Ibus Project Ibus
Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit
Redhat Enterprise Linux Openshift Do
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: redhat

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T00:26:39.079Z

Reserved: 2019-08-10T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2019-14822

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2019-11-25T12:15:11.427

Modified: 2024-11-21T04:27:26.190

Link: CVE-2019-14822

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Moderate

Publid Date: 2019-09-13T07:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2019-14822 - Bugzilla

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