Redmine before 3.2.9, 3.3.x before 3.3.6, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 does not block the --config and --debugger flags to the Mercurial hg…

Description

Redmine before 3.2.9, 3.3.x before 3.3.6, and 3.4.x before 3.4.4 does not block the --config and --debugger flags to the Mercurial hg program, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands (through the Mercurial adapter) via vectors involving a branch whose name begins with a --config= or --debugger= substring, a related issue to CVE-2017-17536.

Scores

EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)

2.8% · top 13% of all CVEs (4 Nov 2026)

The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 8.8.

Weakness

• n/a

Affected products

• n/a

  • affected n/a

References (6)

• https://www.redmine.org/issues/27516 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/58ed8655136ff2fe5ff7796859bf6a399c76c678 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• DSA-4191 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANx_transferred
• https://www.redmine.org/projects/redmine/wiki/Security_Advisories (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/ca87bf766cdc70179cb2dce03015d78ec9c13ebd (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
• https://github.com/redmine/redmine/commit/9d797400eaec5f9fa7ba9507c82d9c18cb91d02e (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_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 Advisories (opens in a new tab)
• CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)

Badge for a README or a ticket

[![CVE-2017-18026](https://trackcve.app/badge/CVE-2017-18026.svg)](https://trackcve.app/cve/CVE-2017-18026)

Record last updated 5 Aug 2024, 21:06 UTC.