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CVE-2017-9462

Public on 2017-06-06
Modified on 2017-07-06
Description

A flaw was found in the way "hg serve --stdio" command in Mercurial handled command-line options. A remote, authenticated attacker could use this flaw to execute arbitrary code on the Mercurial server by using specially crafted command-line options.

Severity
Important
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CVSS v3 Base Score
6.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 mercurial 2017-07-06 19:06 ALAS-2017-856

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 6.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 9.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
NVD CVSSv3 8.8 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H