Vulnerability CVE-2014-9462
Published: 2015-03-31

Description:
The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

Type:

CWE-20

 (Improper Input Validation)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opensuse -> Opensuse 
Novell -> Opensuse 
Mercurial -> Mercurial 

 References:
http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html
http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257
http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19
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