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Unscored USN-4134-1 1 CVE

ibus vulnerability

Published Sep 16, 2019 · Updated Apr 22, 2026

Ecosystem: Ubuntu

Summary

Simon McVittie discovered that IBus did not enforce appropriate access
controls on its private D-Bus socket. A local unprivileged user who
discovers the IBus socket address of another user could exploit this to
capture the key strokes of the other user.

Fixed packages 2

ReleasePackageFixed in
Ubuntu · 16.04 LTS 16.04:LTS ibus 1.5.11-1ubuntu2.2
Ubuntu · 18.04 LTS 18.04:LTS ibus 1.5.17-3ubuntu5.1

Vulnerabilities 1

  • Unscored —
    CVE-2019-14822

    A flaw was discovered in ibus in versions before 1.5.22 that allows any unprivileged user to monitor and send method ca…

    ibus ibus Debian Ubuntu

References

  • report
    https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2019-14822