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CVE-2017-16667

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 1.46% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-11-08 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.8. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

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CVE
CVE-2017-16667
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
1.46%

Original NVD 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.

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