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EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : ibus (EulerOS-SA-2021-1799)

high Nessus Plugin ID 149156

Synopsis

The remote EulerOS host is missing a security update.

Description

According to the version of the ibus packages installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerability :

 - 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)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Solution

Update the affected ibus package.

See Also

http://www.nessus.org/u?53c003a0

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 149156

File Name: EulerOS_SA-2021-1799.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Published: 4/30/2021

Updated: 1/2/2024

Supported Sensors: Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Low

Base Score: 3.6

Temporal Score: 2.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-14822

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ibus, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ibus-gtk2, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ibus-gtk3, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ibus-libs, p-cpe:/a:huawei:euleros:ibus-setup, cpe:/o:huawei:euleros:2.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/EulerOS/release, Host/EulerOS/rpm-list, Host/EulerOS/sp

Excluded KB Items: Host/EulerOS/uvp_version

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/30/2021

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-14822