CVE-2017-7622

Published Apr 10, 2017 CVSS 3.0 · 8.8 High EPSS 1.3% KEV · Not listed
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-16627 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Sep 17, 2024, 12:06 AM
Reserved
Apr 10, 2017, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Apr 10, 2017, 5:59 PM
Modified
Jun 17, 2026, 1:24 AM