CVE-2019-14822 Information

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 Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Reference

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/

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

7.1