CVE-2017-1000116 - mercurial: command injection on clients through malicious ssh URLs

CRITICAL

mercurial: command injection on clients through malicious ssh URLs

Published Oct 4, 2017

9.3

CRITICAL

CVSS 4.0

EPSS 6.29%

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

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	mercurial-0:2.6.2-8.el7_4	Fixed	RHSA-2017:2489
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	mercurial	Will not fix	n/a

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-20

Improper Input Validation

CWE-78

OS Command Injection

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000116		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1479915		Issue Tracking
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j		Advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-89.yaml
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000116
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOPatchThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/WhatsNew/Archive
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000116
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29		x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory