CVE-2017-17458: Mercurial vulnerable to arbitrary code injection
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In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories to run arbitrary code in the form of a .git/hooks/post-update script checked into the repository. Typical use of Mercurial prevents construction of such repositories, but they can be created programmatically.
References
- bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5730
- confluence.atlassian.com/sourcetreekb/sourcetree-security-advisory-2018-01-24-942834324.html
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-6v56-cpg6-3rpx
- github.com/dscho/hg
- github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-90.yaml
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00027.html
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00041.html
- lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-17458
- web.archive.org/web/20200227132808/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102926
- www.mercurial-scm.org/pipermail/mercurial-devel/2017-November/107333.html
- www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew
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