PYSEC-2017-91

At a glance

Published: 2017-06-06 21:29 UTC
Updated: 2023-11-08 03:59 UTC
CVE: CVE-2017-9462
Aliases: GHSA-ghjx-3jg5-h6r2

Description

In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name.

Affected packages

Package	Versions
PyPI · mercurial	introduced 0, fixed 4.1.3

References

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.1.3_.282017-4-18.29 WEB
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/77eaf9539499 WEB
https://bugs.debian.org/861243 WEB
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99123 WEB
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 ADVISORY
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 ADVISORY
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1576 ADVISORY
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html WEB
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghjx-3jg5-h6r2 ADVISORY

Sources

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