Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack · CVE-2017-1000116 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 1, 2024

Package

mercurial (pip)

Affected versions

< 4.3

Patched versions

4.3

Description

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Oct 5, 2017

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022

Reviewed May 1, 2024

Last updated May 1, 2024

Severity

Critical

9.8

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

High

Availability

High

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H