Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
Advisories
Source ID Title
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1072-1 mercurial security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1144-1 git-annex security update
Debian DLA Debian DLA DLA-1495-1 git-annex security update
Debian DSA Debian DSA DSA-3963-1 mercurial security update
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2017-0071 Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
Github GHSA Github GHSA GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j Mercurial is vulnerable to shell injection attack
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T21:53:06.812Z

Reserved: 2017-10-03T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-1000116

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-10-05T01:29:04.617

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2017-1000116

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-08-10T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-1000116 - Bugzilla

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