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CVE-2022-21187

critical

Description

The package libvcs before 0.11.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via argument injection. When calling the update_repo function (when using hg), the url parameter is passed to the hg clone command. By injecting some hg options it was possible to get arbitrary command execution.

References

https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204

https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306

https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2022-03-14

Updated: 2026-06-17

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 7.5

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: High

CVSS v3

Base Score: 9.8

Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: Critical

CVSS v4

Base Score: 9.3

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Severity: Critical

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00732