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.
Advisories
Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-7851 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.
Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.


Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

History

No history.

Projects

Sign in to view the affected projects.

cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T20:27:04.469Z

Reserved: 2017-11-08T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-16667

cve-icon Vulnrichment

No data.

cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-11-08T18:29:00.247

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-16667

cve-icon Redhat

No data.

cve-icon OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses