GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j
Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack
Packages
Details
As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
References
External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000116
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-89.yaml
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
- https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/WhatsNew/Archive
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963