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.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-11-08T18:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:04.469Z
Reserved: 2017-11-08T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-16667
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NVD
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2017-11-08T18:29:00.247
Modified: 2019-04-30T16:07:04.050
Link: CVE-2017-16667
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