CVE-2023-50254

Deepin Reader RCE vulnerability due to a design flaw

State: Published
Severity: 9.3 Critical
Published: Dec 22, 2023
Updated: Aug 2, 2024
Reserved: Dec 5, 2023

Description

Deepin Linux's default document reader `deepin-reader` software suffers from a serious vulnerability in versions prior to 6.0.7 due to a design flaw that leads to remote command execution via crafted docx document. This is a file overwrite vulnerability. Remote code execution (RCE) can be achieved by overwriting files like .bash_rc, .bash_login, etc. RCE will be triggered when the user opens the terminal. Version 6.0.7 contains a patch for the issue.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	9.3 Critical	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:H	GitHub_M

Weaknesses

CWE-27 Path Traversal: 'dir/../../filename'
CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Affected Products

Product	Versions
developer-centerlinuxdeepin	< 6.0.7Affected

References

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