CVE-2019-14822 Missing authorization in ibus

What is CVE-2019-14822?

CVE-2019-14822 is a high-severity missing authorization vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 25 Nov 2019. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-862

Which versions are affected by CVE-2019-14822?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Ibus Project Ibus, Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance Kit, Redhat Enterprise Linux.

How do I fix CVE-2019-14822?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Upgrade, and check permissions on every request on the server, not only in the interface. More about Missing authorization.

Is CVE-2019-14822 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2019-14822 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as ALSA-2020:1880, DEBIAN-CVE-2019-14822, DSA-4525-1, GHSA-6vhv-qmhp-gxj3, MGASA-2019-0284, OESA-2021-1418 and 11 more.