Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting mercurial package, versions <3.1.2-2+deb8u5
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
3% (91st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-MERCURIAL-311093
- published 6 Jun 2017
- disclosed 6 Jun 2017
Introduced: 6 Jun 2017
CVE-2017-9462 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade Debian:8
mercurial
to version 3.1.2-2+deb8u5 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mercurial
package and not the mercurial
package as distributed by Debian
.
See How to fix?
for Debian:8
relevant fixed versions and status.
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.
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-9462
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/77eaf9539499
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.1.3_.282017-4-18.29
- https://bugs.debian.org/861243
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1576
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99123
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-9462