A flaw was discovered in ibus 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.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 2 - Core | ibus | 2020-11-09 17:10 | ALAS2-2020-1555 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv3 | 6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:L/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 3.6 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N |
NVD | CVSSv3 | 7.1 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N |