Auth bypass in Ibus Project
CVE-2019-14822
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.
Vulnerability class: Broken Access Control
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.1 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.004 (28.0th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.004 · newest: 0.004 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Ibus Project
- Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit — versions 8.8
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux — versions 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux — versions 7.0, 8.0
- Ibus — versions ibus versions before 1.5.22
Weakness classification (CWE)
Public proof-of-concept exploits
References
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Patch, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
- usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/ (Third Party Advisory)
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html (Patch, Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2019-14822?
- CVE-2019-14822 is a high-severity vulnerability in Ibus Project, classified under Missing Authorization. CVSS score: 7.1/10. Published 2019-11-25.
- How severe is CVE-2019-14822?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.1 out of 10.
- Is CVE-2019-14822 known to be exploited?
- 1 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.