PYSEC-2015-14

At a glance

Published: 2015-03-31 14:59 UTC
Updated: 2026-06-10 17:02 UTC
CVE: CVE-2014-9462
Aliases: GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54

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

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html WEB
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew WEB
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html WEB
http://www.osvdb.org/119816 WEB
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html WEB
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257 ADVISORY
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19 ADVISORY
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54 ADVISORY

Sources

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