CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-16667
7.8 HIGH
Official page ↗
- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.3 HIGH — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
backintime (aka Back in Time) before 1.1.24 did improper escaping/quoting of file paths used as arguments to the 'notify-send' command, leading to some parts of file paths being executed as shell commands within an os.system call in qt4/plugins/notifyplugin.py. This could allow an attacker to craft an unreadable file with a specific name to run arbitrary shell commands.
Affected configurations
• backintime project backintime (< 1.1.24)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834 Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24 Release Notes, Third Party Advisory
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06 Third Party Advisory