Improper Input Validation Affecting mercurial-hgk package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.28% (90th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-RHEL6-MERCURIALHGK-1360965
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-1000116  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-20  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for RHEL:6 mercurial-hgk.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mercurial-hgk package and not the mercurial-hgk package as distributed by RHEL. See How to fix? for RHEL:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

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