The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

  - The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute
    arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command. (CVE-2014-9462)

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command. (CVE-2014-9462)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

According to the versions of the mercurial package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities :

  - The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute     arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command. (CVE-2014-9462)

  - The convert extension in Mercurial before 3.8 might allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary     code via a crafted git repository name. (CVE-2016-3105)

  - The binary delta decoder in Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a     (1) clone, (2) push, or (3) pull command, related to (a) a list sizing rounding error and (b) short     records. (CVE-2016-3630)

  - The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there     should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data, but actually are not,     aka OVE-20180430-0001. (CVE-2018-13348)

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the EulerOS security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201612-19 (Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in Mercurial. Please       review the CVE identifier and bug reports referenced for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could possibly execute arbitrary code with the       privileges of the process.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

CVE-2014-9462

Jesse Hertz of Matasano Security discovered that Mercurial, a distributed version control system, is prone to a command injection vulnerability via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

CVE-2014-9390

is a security vulnerability that affects mercurial repositories in a case-insensitive filesystem (eg. VFAT or HFS+). It allows for remote code execution of a specially crafted repository. This is less severe for the average Debian installation as they are usually set up with case-sensitive filesystems.

NOTE: Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the DLA security advisory. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

Jesse Hertz of Matasano Security discovered that Mercurial, a distributed version control system, is prone to a command injection vulnerability via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

mercurial was updated to fix a command Injection via sshpeer._validaterepo() (CVE-2014-9462, bnc#923070).

ID	Name	Product	Family	Type	Severity
434148	SCA: security update for mercurial (GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54)	Tenable Cloud Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
434148	SCA: security update for mercurial (GHSA-3pmw-h7j4-rf54)	Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security	SCA Checks	Local	critical
218693	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2014-9462	Nessus	Misc.	Local	critical
161516	EulerOS 2.0 SP3 : mercurial (EulerOS-SA-2022-1747)	Nessus	Huawei Local Security Checks	Local	high
95605	GLSA-201612-19 : Mercurial: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	Local	critical
83995	Debian DLA-237-1 : mercurial security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	critical
83336	Debian DSA-3257-1 : mercurial - security update	Nessus	Debian Local Security Checks	Local	high
82426	openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2015-268)	Nessus	SuSE Local Security Checks	Local	high

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