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Mercurial Incorrect Access Control vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 13, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 1, 2024

Package

pip mercurial (pip)

Affected versions

< 4.5.1

Patched versions

4.5.1

Description

Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.5.1.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Mar 14, 2018
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 13, 2022
Last updated May 1, 2024
Reviewed May 1, 2024

Severity

Critical
9.1
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Network
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
None
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2018-1000132

GHSA ID

GHSA-4mr4-7vjv-9hm6

Source code

No known source code
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