Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
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describes (1)
Related CVEs.
| ID | severity | exploitable | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CVE-2017-1000116US | critical9.8 | — | ||
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks. | ||||
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references
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963WEB
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489WEB
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-89.yamlWEB
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000116ADVISORY
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18WEB
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290WEB
- https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/WhatsNew/ArchiveWEB
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29WEB
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