GitHub Advisoryadvisory · PyPI
GHSA-ghjx-3jg5-h6r2 Mercurial has Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
HIGH
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- Aliases
- CVE-2017-9462
- Ecosystem
- PyPI
- Packages
- mercurial
- Severity
- High
- CVSS vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Weaknesses
- CWE-732
- Reviewed
- 2020-06-16
Affected packages
• PyPI mercurial: < 4.1.3 → fixed in 4.1.3
Description
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.
Related
Alias · CVE (1)
- CVE-2017-9462 In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute… vulnerability
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource weakness
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-9462 advisory
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1576 web
- https://bugs.debian.org/861243 web
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-ghjx-3jg5-h6r2 advisory
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-91.yaml web
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html web
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 web
- https://web.archive.org/web/20200227162318/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99123 web
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/77eaf9539499 web
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.1.3_.282017-4-18.29 web
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 web