CVE-2019-14822

high

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.

References

https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717958

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-11-25

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 3.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Severity: High