UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18026

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-18026

    Published: 10 Jan 2018Last Modified: 24 Oct 2025
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-18026

    Summary:

    Details: Redmine before 3.2.9, 3.3.x before 3.3.6, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 does not block the --config and --debugger flags to the Mercurial hg program, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands (through the Mercurial adapter) via vectors involving a branch whose name begins with a --config= or --debugger= substring, a related issue to CVE-2017-17536.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-18026, https://www.redmine.org/issues/27516, https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/ca87bf766cdc70179cb2dce03015d78ec9c13ebd, https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/58ed8655136ff2fe5ff7796859bf6a399c76c678, https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/9d797400eaec5f9fa7ba9507c82d9c18cb91d02e, https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-18026

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: redmine

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]?arch=source&distro=xenial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -None

    Affected versions

    3.0~20140825-8

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High