CVE-2017-16667 | BDVDB-2026-92685 Detail

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.

Impact#

No impact statement in the source data.

Weaknesses#

No weakness recorded in the source data.

References#

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24

Exploit#

No public exploit known

History#

Version 12017-11-08Record published in the CVE List.
Version 22024-08-05Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.