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CVE-2016-3069

Public on 2016-04-13
Modified on 2016-05-03
Description

It was discovered that the Mercurial convert extension failed to sanitize special characters in Git repository names. A Git repository with a specially crafted name could cause Mercurial to execute arbitrary code when the Git repository was converted to a Mercurial repository.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.1
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mercurial 2016-05-03 10:30 ALAS-2016-697

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 5.1 AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv2 6.8 AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H