CVE-2009-3611: Fedoraproject Fedora

High severity, CVSS 7.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: version 10 only; version 11 only
• Le-Web Backintime: version 0.9.26 only

Published 2009-10-26. Last modified 2026-06-16.