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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Remediation
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Advisories
| Source | ID | Title |
|---|---|---|
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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History
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-09-17T00:06:11.053Z
Reserved: 2017-04-10T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2017-7622
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Status : Modified
Published: 2017-04-10T17:59:00.153
Modified: 2026-05-13T00:24:29.033
Link: CVE-2017-7622
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OpenCVE Enrichment
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Weaknesses
EUVD