OS Command Injection Affecting mercurial package, versions <4.0-1+deb9u1


Severity

Recommended
0.0
critical
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.28% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-DEBIAN9-MERCURIAL-311038
  • published5 Oct 2017
  • disclosed5 Oct 2017

Introduced: 5 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-78  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:9 mercurial to version 4.0-1+deb9u1 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:9 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.