CVE-2009-3611
HIGH · CVSS 7.1EPSS 0.3%EU EUVD
common/snapshots.py in Back In Time (aka backintime) 0.9.26 changes certain permissions to 0777 before deleting the files in an old backup snapshot, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files, or interfere with backup integrity by modifying files that are shared across snapshots.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.1 (v3.1)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-732
- EPSS score
- 0.3% (23th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-3592)
- Published
- October 26, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-3592 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- fedoraproject / fedora
- fedoraproject / fedora
- le-web / backintime
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=543785(Mailing List)
- http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=289047(Issue Tracking, Patch)
- http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/b/backintime/backintime_0.9.26-3.diff.gz(Broken Link, Patch)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125553645511436&w=2(Mailing List)
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=125554894700336&w=2(Mailing List)
- https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/backintime/+bug/434256(Third Party Advisory)
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520210(Issue Tracking)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00821.html(Mailing List)
- https://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00823.html(Mailing List)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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