deepinid plugin in dde-control-center is configured to skip TLS certificate verification when downloading avatar from remote server
Package
dde-control-center
(Deepin)
Affected versions
>= 6.1.35, < 6.1.80
>= 5.5.3, < 5.9.9
Patched versions
6.1.80
5.9.9
deepin-deepinid-plugin
(Deepin)
>= 2.0.1, <= 2.0.9
< 1.6.19
1.6.19
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 is also CNNVD-202604-2060.
Introduced in: linuxdeepin/dde-control-center@cd95b05
Fixed in: dde-control-center 6.1.80 by (linuxdeepin/dde-control-center#3146)