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

2017-11-08T18:29:00Z

Modified

2026-10-20T10:47:50Z

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

Fixed

52051a69451fc9fbf6c07e934c615116cd33e4d3

Fixed

cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3

Database specific

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{
    "extracted_events":  [
        {
            "cpe":  "cpe:2.3:a:backintime_project:backintime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "introduced":  "0"
                },
                {
                    "fixed":  "1.1.24"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "CPE_RANGE"
        },
        {
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
        },
        {
            "original_tag":  "v1.1.24",
            "range":  [
                {
                    "fixed":  "52051a69451fc9fbf6c07e934c615116cd33e4d3"
                }
            ],
            "source":  "REFERENCES_TAG"
        }
    ]
}

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"