PT-2019-6582 · Mercurial · Mercurial

Dave B · Published 2019-10-29 · Updated 2022-04-21 · CVE-2010-4237

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Mercurial versions prior to 1.6.4

Description The issue allows remote attackers who acquire a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority to perform a man-in-the-middle attack due to the failure to verify the Common Name field of SSL certificates.

Recommendations For versions prior to 1.6.4, update to version 1.6.4 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Improper Certificate Validation

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-295

Related Identifiers

CVE-2010-4237

GHSA-7GF7-7WX4-MXMW

Affected Products

Mercurial

References · 14

• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/GHSA-7gf7-7wx4-mxmw · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2010-4237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4237 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2010-4237 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/89baabf4fb7abf30ef6fdcf3d455a7893e5cc145 · Note
• https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/4ea63fb25ceeeaaa4cd1026f733b7ea7672c30b3 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2010-4237 · Note
• https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/6ab4a7d3c179 · Note
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841 · Note
• https://t.me/cibsecurity/7748 · Telegram Post
• https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/f2937d6492c5 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237 · Note