CVE-2019-14822 is a local privilege escalation vulnerability in ibus versions prior to 1.5.22, affecting products from Canonical, ibus_project, Oracle, and Red Hat. This flaw allows an unprivileged local attacker to monitor and send method calls to another user's ibus bus due to a misconfigured DBus server. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.1 (High), indicating a low attack complexity and requiring low privileges, with high impact on confidentiality and integrity. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion, organizations should still patch affected systems to mitigate this risk.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 1.5.22CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:ibus_project:ibus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
16.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04:*:*:*:esm:*:*:* | ||
18.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:18.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
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