CVE-2010-4237: Mercurial Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability
(updated )
Mercurial before 1.6.4 fails to verify the Common Name field of SSL certificates which allows remote attackers who acquire a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
References
- bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841
- bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237
- bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407
- github.com/advisories/GHSA-7gf7-7wx4-mxmw
- github.com/dscho/hg/commit/4ea63fb25ceeeaaa4cd1026f733b7ea7672c30b3
- github.com/dscho/hg/commit/89baabf4fb7abf30ef6fdcf3d455a7893e5cc145
- nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4237
- repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/6ab4a7d3c179
- repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/f2937d6492c5
- security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237
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