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Arbitrary Command Execution Affecting mercurial package, versions [,3.2.4)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 3.14% (91st percentile)
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NVD
7.3 high
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Red Hat
6.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-MERCURIAL-40298
  • published 27 Mar 2015
  • disclosed 27 Mar 2015
  • credit Marcus Meissner
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Introduced: 27 Mar 2015

CVE-2014-9462 Open this link in a new tab
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Overview

mercurial is a Fast scalable distributed SCM (revision control, version control) system 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.

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