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Arbitrary Code Execution Affecting mercurial package, versions [,4.1.3)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High
    Availability High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 3% (91st percentile)
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NVD
8.8 high
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Red Hat
6.3 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-MERCURIAL-42106
  • published 28 May 2018
  • disclosed 6 Jun 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 6 Jun 2017

CVE-2017-9462 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-94 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade mercurial to version 4.1.3 or higher.

Overview

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

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary code Execution. The hg serve --stdio command allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger flag as a repository name.

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