CVE-2017-16667: 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…

PriorityP337high7.8CVSS 3.0

AVLACLPRNUIRSUCHIHAH

EPSS

1.46%

71.0th percentile

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

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
backintime_project	backintime	< 1.1.24	1.1.24
backintime_project	backintime	>= 0 < 1.1.24-0.1	1.1.24-0.1
backintime_project	backintime	>= 0 < 1.1.24-0.1	1.1.24-0.1
backintime_project	backintime	>= 0 < 1.1.24-0.1	1.1.24-0.1
backintime_project	backintime	>= 0 < 1.1.24-0.1	1.1.24-0.1
debian	backintime	< backintime 1.1.24-0.1 (bookworm)	backintime 1.1.24-0.1 (bookworm)

CVSS provenance

nvdv3.07.8HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

nvdv2.09.3CRITICALAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

osv7.8HIGH

vendor_debian7.8HIGH

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