CVE-2017-16667

Published: 2017-11-08T18:29Z

Last Modified: 2024-11-21T03:16Z

Source: MITRE CVE List

License: MITRE-CVE-TOS

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. > MITRE Terms of Use apply – see LICENSE‑MITRE.txt