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.

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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-05T17:11:01.615Z

Reserved: 2017-06-06T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2017-9462

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-06-06T21:29:00.393

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

Link: CVE-2017-9462

cve-icon Redhat

Severity : Important

Publid Date: 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Links: CVE-2017-9462 - Bugzilla

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