CVE-2017-16667

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16667
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16667.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-16667
Downstream
Published
2017-11-08T18:29:00.247Z
Modified
2026-07-08T15:10:46.868257Z
Severity
  • 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/bit-team/backintime

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
52051a69451fc9fbf6c07e934c615116cd33e4d3
Fixed
cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
Database specific 
{
    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:backintime_project:backintime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
    "extracted_events": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "fixed": "1.1.24"
        }
    ],
    "source": [
        "CPE_RANGE",
        "REFERENCES"
    ]
}

Affected versions

v0.*
v0.7.4
v0.8.0
v0.8.12
v0.8.14
v0.8.16
v0.8.18
v0.8.20
v0.8.8
v0.9.0
v0.9.10
v0.9.12
v0.9.14
v0.9.16
v0.9.18
v0.9.2
v0.9.20
v0.9.22
v0.9.24
v0.9.26
v0.9.4
v0.9.6
v0.9.8
v1.*
v1.0.0
v1.0.12
v1.0.14
v1.0.18
v1.0.2
v1.0.20
v1.0.24
v1.0.28
v1.0.4
v1.0.6
v1.1.0
v1.1.10
v1.1.12
v1.1.14
v1.1.16
v1.1.18
v1.1.2
v1.1.20
v1.1.22
v1.1.4
v1.1.6
v1.1.8

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16667.json"