CVE-2017-7622

High

Description

dde-daemon, the daemon process of DDE (Deepin Desktop Environment) 15.0 through 15.3, runs with root privileges and hardly does anything to identify the user who calls the function through D-Bus. Anybody can change the grub config, even to append some arguments to make a backdoor or privilege escalation, by calling DoWriteGrubSettings() provided by dde-daemon.

SeverityHigh
CVSS8.8
Exploit probability—
ProductDeepin Desktop Environment
PublishedApr 10, 2017
First seenApr 10, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

Affected products

ProductAffected versionsFixed in
deepin deepin_desktop_environment15.0, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3—

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