vulnerability

Red Hat: CVE-2017-1000116: Important: mercurial security update (RHSA-2017:2489)

Severity
10
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Aug 17, 2017
Added
Jan 17, 2018
Modified
Feb 19, 2026

Description

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

Solutions

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