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high 7.1

CVE-2019-14822 json

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…

published 2019-11-25 6 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2019-5950

cvss
7.1
version 3.1, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.4%
EPSS 0.4% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 30%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

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.

Patch / fix

  • ibus_project ibus 1.5.22
  • ibus Debian 14, Debian 13, Debian 12 1.5.21-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14822

  • ibus Ubuntu 16.04 LTS 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4
  • ibus Ubuntu 18.04 LTS 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.3

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2019-14822

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • ibus RHEL 7 1.5.17-11.el7
  • glib2 RHEL 7 2.56.1-7.el7
  • glib2-fam RHEL 7 2.56.1-7.el7
  • ibus-gtk2 RHEL 7 1.5.17-11.el7
  • ibus-gtk3 RHEL 7 1.5.17-11.el7
  • ibus-libs RHEL 7 1.5.17-11.el7
  • ibus-setup RHEL 7 1.5.17-11.el7
  • glib2-tests RHEL 7 2.56.1-7.el7

red hat advisories RHSA-2020:3978RHSA-2020:1880

  • ibus SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 SP1 1.5.19-8.3.1
  • ibus SLES for SAP 12 SP5, SLES for SAP 12 SP4, SLES for SAP 12 SP3 +18 more 1.5.13-15.11.2
  • ibus SLE Module for Desktop Applications 15 1.5.17-5.3.1
  • ibus SLES for SAP 12 SP1, SLES 12 SP1-LTSS 1.5.8-10.4.1

suse advisories SUSE-SU-2019:2427-1SUSE-SU-2019:2389-1SUSE-SU-2019:2388-1SUSE-SU-2019:2387-1

  • ibus openSUSE Tumbleweed 1.5.25-1.2
  • ibus openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.5.19-lp151.2.3.1
  • python-ibus openSUSE Leap 15.1 1.5.19-lp151.2.3.1
  • ibus openSUSE Leap 15.0 1.5.17-lp150.4.3.1
  • python3-ibus openSUSE Leap 15.0 1.5.17-lp150.4.3.1

opensuse advisories openSUSE-SU-2024:10853-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2199-1openSUSE-SU-2019:2174-1

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2019-14822 updated cvss 6.1

ibus: missing authorization allows local attacker to access the input bus of another user

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 ibus, ibus-gtk, ibus-libs
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Do 1 openshiftdo/odo-init-image-rhel7 1.1.3-2
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2021:0949
  • Red Hat CodeReady Linux Builder (v. 8) glib2-doc 2.56.4-8.el8, ibus-devel 1.5.19-11.el8, glib2-static 2.56.4-8.el8, glib2-debuginfo 2.56.4-8.el8, ibus-debuginfo 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-devel-docs 1.5.19-11.el8, +10 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream (v. 8) ibus 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-gtk2 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-gtk3 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-libs 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-setup 1.5.19-11.el8, ibus-wayland 1.5.19-11.el8 Red Hat Enterprise Linux BaseOS (v. 8) glib2 2.56.4-8.el8, glib2-fam 2.56.4-8.el8, glib2-tests 2.56.4-8.el8
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:1880
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client (v. 7) glib2 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk2 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk3 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-libs 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-setup 1.5.17-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Client Optional (v. 7) glib2-fam 2.56.1-7.el7, glib2-tests 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus-pygtk2 1.5.17-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode (v. 7) glib2 2.56.1-7.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux ComputeNode Optional (v. 7) ibus 1.5.17-11.el7, glib2-fam 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus-gtk2 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk3 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-libs 1.5.17-11.el7, glib2-tests 2.56.1-7.el7, +2 more Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (v. 7) glib2 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk2 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk3 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-libs 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-setup 1.5.17-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server Optional (v. 7) glib2-fam 2.56.1-7.el7, glib2-tests 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus-pygtk2 1.5.17-11.el7
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation (v. 7) glib2 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk2 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-gtk3 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-libs 1.5.17-11.el7, ibus-setup 1.5.17-11.el7 Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation Optional (v. 7) glib2-fam 2.56.1-7.el7, glib2-tests 2.56.1-7.el7, ibus-pygtk2 1.5.17-11.el7
    fixed: vendor fix RHSA-2020:3978

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Exploit prediction

0.36% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 30% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 2.0 3.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • n/a ibus

Classification

Weakness

References

Sources

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