High severity8.8NVD Advisory· Published Apr 10, 2017· Updated May 13, 2026
CVE-2017-7622
CVE-2017-7622
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.
Affected products
4cpe:2.3:a:deepin:deepin_desktop_environment:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 3 more
- cpe:2.3:a:deepin:deepin_desktop_environment:15.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:deepin:deepin_desktop_environment:15.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:deepin:deepin_desktop_environment:15.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:a:deepin:deepin_desktop_environment:15.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
1- github.com/kings-way/deepinhack/blob/master/dde_daemon_poc.pynvdExploitThird Party Advisory
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