Arbitrary Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package python3-pip-wheel  (opens in a new tab)


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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS8-PYTHON3PIPWHEEL-6145190
  • published5 Jan 2024
  • disclosed25 Oct 2023

Introduced: 25 Oct 2023

CVE-2023-5752  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-77  (opens in a new tab)

Amendment

The Centos security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Centos:8.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream python3-pip-wheel package and not the python3-pip-wheel package as distributed by Centos.

When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.