{"id":"UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16667","details":"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.","modified":"2025-10-24T04:46:36Z","published":"2017-11-08T18:29:00Z","upstream":["CVE-2017-16667"],"references":[{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-16667"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3"},{"type":"REPORT","url":"https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-16667"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"backintime","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:16.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/backintime@1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1?arch=source&distro=xenial"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.0.36-1","1.1.12-1","1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"backintime-common","binary_version":"1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1"},{"binary_name":"backintime-gnome","binary_version":"1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1"},{"binary_name":"backintime-kde","binary_version":"1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1"},{"binary_name":"backintime-qt4","binary_version":"1.1.12-2~build0.16.04.1"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16667.json"}},{"package":{"name":"backintime","ecosystem":"Ubuntu:18.04:LTS","purl":"pkg:deb/ubuntu/backintime@1.1.12-2?arch=source&distro=bionic"},"ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}],"versions":["1.1.12-2"],"ecosystem_specific":{"binaries":[{"binary_name":"backintime-common","binary_version":"1.1.12-2"},{"binary_name":"backintime-gnome","binary_version":"1.1.12-2"},{"binary_name":"backintime-kde","binary_version":"1.1.12-2"},{"binary_name":"backintime-qt4","binary_version":"1.1.12-2"}]},"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2017/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-16667.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","severity":[{"type":"CVSS_V3","score":"CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},{"type":"Ubuntu","score":"medium"}]}