high7.8
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 o…
Impact
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 products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Backintime Project | Backintime | before 1.1.24 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834
- https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06