deepinid plugin in dde-control-center is configured to skip TLS certificate verification when downloading avatar from remote server
Summary
deepinid plugin in dde-control-center is configured to skip TLS certificate verification when downloading avatar from remote server
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dde-control-center is the control panel of DDE, the Deepin Desktop Environment. plugin-deepinid is a plugin in dde-control-center, which provides the deepinid cloud service. Prior to 6.1.80, plugin-deepinid is configured to skip TLS certificate verification when fetching the user's avatar from openapi.deepin.com or other providers. An MITM attacker could intercept the traffic, replace the avatar with a malicious or misleading image, and potentially identify the user by the avatar. This vulnerability is fixed in dde-control-center 6.1.80 and 5.9.9.
Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD GitHub Advisory OSV
References
- advisory github.com
- advisory github.com
- advisory nvd.nist.gov
- patch github.com
- patch github.com
- patch github.com