PT-2015-4225 · Mercurial+2 · Mercurial+2

Published 2015-03-20 · Updated 2022-05-14 · CVE-2014-9462

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v4.0

9.3

Critical

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mercurial versions prior to 3.2.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command. This is related to the validaterepo function in sshpeer.

Recommendations For versions prior to 3.2.4, update to version 3.2.4 or later to resolve the issue. As a temporary workaround, consider restricting the use of the clone command with crafted repository names until a patch is applied.

Exploit

Fix

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1586

CVE-2014-9462

DLA-237-1

DSA-3257-1

GHSA-3PMW-H7J4-RF54

MGASA-2015-0129

PYSEC-2015-14

SUSE-SU-2015:0817-1

SUSE-SU-2015:0836-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0817-1

SUSE-SU-2015_0836-1

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Mercurial

Suse

References · 40

• 🔥 https://github.com/rapid7/metasploit-framework/blob/master/modules/exploits/multi/http/git_client_command_exec.rb · Exploit
• 🔥 http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html · Exploit
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19 · Vendor Advisory
• http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2014-9462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/SUSE-SU-2015:0836-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/PYSEC-2015-14 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-9462 · Security Note
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0129.html · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2014-9462 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DSA-3257-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257 · Vendor Advisory