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CVE-2017-7622

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-04-10 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-862

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

• Deepin Desktop Environment: 15.0, 15.1, 15.2, 15.3

References

• https://github.com/kings-way/deepinhack/blob/master/dde_daemon_poc.py
• https://github.com/kings-way/deepinhack/blob/master/dde_daemon_poc.py

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