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CVE-2019-14822

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.1 v3.1)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2019-11-25 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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.

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 16.04, 18.04, 19.10
• Ibus Project Ibus: before 1.5.22 — fixed in 1.5.22
• Oracle Corporation Oracle ZFS Storage Appliance Kit: 8.8
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 7.0, 8.0

How to fix

Upgrade to a fixed version: Ibus Project Ibus 1.5.22. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.

References

• 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
• 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

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