GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54

Mercurial vulnerable to arbitrary command execution via a crafted repository name in a clone command

At a glance

Published: 2022-05-14 02:05 UTC
Updated: 2024-09-24 20:46 UTC
CVE: CVE-2014-9462
Aliases: PYSEC-2015-14
CVSS_V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS_V4: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
PyPI · mercurial	introduced 0, fixed 3.2.4

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-9462 ADVISORY
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2015-14.yaml WEB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19 WEB
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html WEB
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html WEB
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew WEB
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257 WEB
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html WEB

Sources

Source	Licence
OSV.dev	CC-BY 4.0 — GitHub Advisory Database