CVE-2017-16667

Current 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.

Basic Data

Published	November 08, 2017
Last Modified	April 30, 2019
Assigner	cve@mitre.org
Data Type	CVE
Data Format	MITRE
Data Version	4.0
Problem Type	CWE-78
CVE Data Version	4.0

Base Metric V2

CVSS 2 - Version	2.0
CVSS 2 - Vector String	AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS 2 - Access Vector	NETWORK
CVSS 2 - Access Complexity	MEDIUM
CVSS 2 - Authentication	NONE
CVSS 2 - Confidentiality Impact	COMPLETE
CVSS 2 - Availability Impact	COMPLETE
CVSS 2 - Base Score	9.3
Severity	HIGH
Exploitability Score	8.6
Impact Score	10.0
Obtain All Privilege	false
Obtain User Privilege	false
Obtain Other Privilege	false

Base Metric V3

CVSS 3 - Version	3.0
CVSS 3 - Vector String	CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 3 - Attack Vector	LOCAL
CVSS 3 - Attack Complexity	LOW
CVSS 3 - Privileges Required	NONE
CVSS 3 - User Interaction	REQUIRED
CVSS 3 - Scope	UNCHANGED
CVSS 3 - Confidentiality Impact	HIGH
CVSS 3 - Integrity Impact	HIGH
CVSS 3 - Availability Impact	HIGH
CVSS 3 - Base Score	7.8
CVSS 3 - Base Severity	HIGH
Exploitability Score	1.8
Base Severity	HIGH

Configurations

Vulnerable Software List

Vendor	Product	Versions
Backintime Project	Backintime	*

References