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CVE-2009-3611

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FAUCET Score

CVE-2009-3611 describes a local privilege escalation vulnerability in Back In Time (backintime) versions 0.9.26 and earlier, affecting Fedora and other distributions. During the deletion of old backup snapshots, the software temporarily sets file permissions to 0777, allowing local users to read sensitive data or modify files shared across snapshots. With a CVSS score of 7.1 (HIGH), this vulnerability has a low attack complexity and requires local user privileges, leading to high confidentiality and integrity impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
0.9.26CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:le-web:backintime:0.9.26:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:10:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
11CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:o:fedoraproject:fedora:11:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

7.1HIGH

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Attack Vector
LOCAL
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
HIGH
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.8
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.30%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
22.4%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-24
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0030 is in the 59th percentile among its peer group of 16,985 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.2 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.2 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2009-3611Important

backintime: makes all files world-readable in snapshot when removing it

Aug 27, 2009

References

bugs.debian.org / cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi
Mailing List
bugs.gentoo.org / show_bug.cgi
Issue TrackingPatch
ftp.debian.org / debian/pool/main/b/backintime/backintime_0.9.26-3.diff.gz
Broken LinkPatch
marc.info
Mailing List
marc.info
Mailing List
bugs.launchpad.net / ubuntu/+source/backintime/+bug/434256
Third Party Advisory
bugzilla.redhat.com / show_bug.cgi
Issue Tracking
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00821.html
Mailing List
redhat.com / archives/fedora-package-announce/2009-September/msg00823.html
Mailing List