Security advisory

{
  "id": "d59af355fba90cf69fbebaa7aba3c25df3ab40a0dfa3dac74aa7c1a73aeb4a08",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-16667",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2017-16667",
    "summary": "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2017-16667",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2017-16667",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2017-16667"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/bit-team/backintime",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "0"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "52051a69451fc9fbf6c07e934c615116cd33e4d3"
                },
                {
                  "fixed": "cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:backintime_project:backintime:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "0"
                      },
                      {
                        "fixed": "1.1.24"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_RANGE"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_COMMIT"
                  },
                  {
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "fixed": "52051a69451fc9fbf6c07e934c615116cd33e4d3"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "REFERENCES_TAG",
                    "original_tag": "v1.1.24"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "v1.1.22",
            "v1.1.20",
            "v1.1.18",
            "v1.1.16",
            "v1.1.14",
            "v1.1.12",
            "v1.1.10",
            "v1.1.8",
            "v1.1.6",
            "v1.1.4",
            "v1.1.2",
            "v1.1.0",
            "v1.0.28",
            "v1.0.24",
            "v1.0.20",
            "v1.0.18",
            "v1.0.14",
            "v1.0.12",
            "v1.0.6",
            "v1.0.4",
            "v1.0.2",
            "v1.0.0",
            "v0.9.26",
            "v0.9.24",
            "v0.9.22",
            "v0.9.20",
            "v0.9.18",
            "v0.9.16",
            "v0.9.14",
            "v0.9.12",
            "v0.9.10",
            "v0.9.8",
            "v0.9.6",
            "v0.9.4",
            "v0.9.2",
            "v0.9.0",
            "v0.8.20",
            "v0.8.18",
            "v0.8.16",
            "v0.8.14",
            "v0.8.12",
            "v0.8.8",
            "v0.8.0",
            "v0.7.4"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-16667.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-20T10:47:50.064262401Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/834",
        "https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/releases/tag/v1.1.24",
        "https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201801-06",
        "https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/commit/cef81d0da93ff601252607df3db1a48f7f6f01b3"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2017-16667",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 379757,
  "published_at": "2017-11-08T18:29:00.247+00:00"
}