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CVE-2017-1000116
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
Critical9.8EPSS 6.4%
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Description
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | Critical9.8 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 6.4% · top 6.3% of all CVEs (5 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Critical 9.8.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
Affected packages
From reviewed advisories of the GitHub Advisory Database.
- PyPImercurialGHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j (opens in a new tab)
References (5)
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 100290 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- DSA-3963 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
- RHSA-2017:2489 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATx_transferred
- GLSA-201709-18 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisory GHSA-3qmg-c9vc-r47j (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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