CVE-2013-4509

Severity

19%

Complexity

34%

Confidentiality

48%

The default configuration of IBUS 1.5.4, and possibly 1.5.2 and earlier, when IBus.InputPurpose.PASSWORD is not set and used with GNOME 3, does not obscure the entered password characters, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain a user password by reading the lockscreen.

The default configuration of IBUS 1.5.4, and possibly 1.5.2 and earlier, when IBus.InputPurpose.PASSWORD is not set and used with GNOME 3, does not obscure the entered password characters, which allows physically proximate attackers to obtain a user password by reading the lockscreen.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 1.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: medium. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N).

Overview

First reported 11 years ago

2013-11-23 19:55:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-30 16:27:00

Affected Software

ibus Project ibus

IBUS Project Intelligent Input Bus for Linux / Unix OS (IBUS) 1.5.4

1.5.4

OpenSUSE 13.1

13.1

References

openSUSE-SU-2013:1686

openSUSE-SU-2013:1825

openSUSE-SU-2014:0068

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1027028

https://code.google.com/p/mozc/issues/attachmentText?id=199&aid=1990002000&name=ibus-mozc_support_ibus-1.5.4_rev2.diff&token=P62umpXGXx68XJT6zyvBA727wqE%3A1383693105690

Patch

https://github.com/ibus/ibus-anthy/commit/6aae0a9f145f536515e268dd6b25aa740a5edfe7

Patch

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/ibus-user/mvCHDO1BJUw

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