VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE

CVE-2017-7622

CVSS score8.8 HIGH
EPSS probability1.27%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2017-04-10
Last modified2026-06-17
CVSS vectorCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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.

Weakness classification

  • CWE-862: Missing Authorization

Primary references