Executive brief
Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
Affected products
- PyPI mercurial
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2017-1000116: PYSEC-2017-89 - Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.
CVE-2017-1000116 · Severity: low · CVSS 3 · Published 2017-10-05
Technologies: mercurial (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.
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