GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j
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GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j
Summary: Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack
Details: Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000116, https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-89.yaml, https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18, https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290, https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/WhatsNew/Archive, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29, http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963
Affected packages
Package
Name: mercurial
Purl: pkg:pypi/mercurial
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
