CVE-2017-16667

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 8, 2017
Updated: Aug 5, 2024
Reserved: Nov 8, 2017

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.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
GLSA-201801-06vendor-advisory
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24

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