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CVE-2013-4509

• Severity: low (CVSS 1.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2013-11-23 · updated 2026-06-16
• Weakness: CWE-255

Description

The default configuration of IBUS 1.5.4, and possibly 1.5.2 and earlier, when IBus.InputPurpose.PASSWORD is not set and used with GNOME 3, does not obscure the entered password characters, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain a user password by reading the lockscreen.

Affected products

• Ibus Project Ibus: through 1.5.2; 1.5.4
• Opensuse: 13.1

References

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00045.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027028
• https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/attachmentText?id=199&aid=1990002000&name=ibus-mozc_support_ibus-1.5.4_rev2.diff&token=P62umpXGXx68XJT6zyvBA727wqE%3A1383693105690
• https://github.com/ibus/ibus-anthy/commit/6aae0a9f145f536515e268dd6b25aa740a5edfe7
• https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-11/msg00036.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-12/msg00024.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2014-01/msg00045.html
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027028
• https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/attachmentText?id=199&aid=1990002000&name=ibus-mozc_support_ibus-1.5.4_rev2.diff&token=P62umpXGXx68XJT6zyvBA727wqE%3A1383693105690

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