CVE-2019-14822

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 Metrics

• v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7.1CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
• v2.0•LOW•Score: 3.6AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.17%• Percentile: 38%

Techniques & Countermeasures

• CWE-862•Missing Authorization

  The product does not perform an authorization check when an actor attempts to access a resource or perform an action.

Affected Systems

• canonical•ubuntu_linux

  16.04 | 18.04 | 19.10

• ibus_project•ibus

  < 1.5.22

• oracle•zfs_storage_appliance_kit

  8.8

• redhat•enterprise_linux

  7.0 | 8.0

References (4)

• 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