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.
CVE-2019-14822
Score 7.1 from GitHub Security Advisory (severity: LOW) published 2022-05-24. NVD baseline CVSS 7.1; sources differ by 0.0.
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
A fix is available — apply it.
- CVSS v3
- 7.1
- EG Score
- 7.1(medium)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity71% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability30% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 30%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 25, 2019
Last Modified
November 21, 2024
References (8)
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717958
- secalert@redhathttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- secalert@redhathttps://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/
- secalert@redhathttps://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1717958
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-14822
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://usn.ubuntu.com/4134-3/
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2022.html
Vendor Advisories for CVE-2019-14822(3)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
- RHSA-2021:0949Red Hat Product SecurityLow
Red Hat Security Advisory: Red Hat OpenShift Do openshift/odo-init-image 1.1.3 security update
- RHSA-2020:3978Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: glib2 and ibus security and bug fix update
- RHSA-2020:1880Red Hat Product SecurityMedium
Red Hat Security Advisory: ibus and glib2 security and bug fix update
Patch Availability(5)
| Vendor / Ecosystem | Fixed in / Patch | Released | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| ubuntu | libibus-1.0-dev (1.5.19-1ubuntu2.1) @ disco | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| ubuntu | libibus-1.0-dev (1.5.11-1ubuntu2.4) @ xenial | 2026-05-27 | ubuntu |
| redhat | openshiftdo/odo-init-image-rhel7:1.1.3-2 | 2021-03-22 | redhat |
| redhat | ibus-0:1.5.17-11.el7 | 2020-09-29 | redhat |
| redhat | ibus-0:1.5.19-11.el8 | 2020-04-28 | redhat |
Patches are aggregated from vendor advisories (Red Hat, Microsoft, Cisco, GitHub) and package ecosystems (OSV, GHSA). Multiple rows for the same upstream release have been deduplicated.
Affected Packages
(6 across 6 ecosystems)
Debian:10(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | 1.5.19-4 | 1.5.19-4+deb10u1 | — |
Debian:11(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | — | 1.5.21-1 | — |
Debian:12(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | — | 1.5.21-1 | — |
Debian:13(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | — | 1.5.21-1 | — |
Debian:14(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | — | 1.5.21-1 | — |
Debian:9(1)
| Package | Vulnerable range | Fixed in | Dependents |
|---|---|---|---|
| ibus | 1.5.14-3, 1.5.14-3+deb9u1 | 1.5.14-3+deb9u2 | — |
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Additional Vendor Advisories
(2)
Vendors that published advisories for this CVE beyond the curated set above. Broader coverage but minimal per-row detail — click through for the original advisory.
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