CVE-2023-5752

medium

Description

When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.

References

https://mail.python.org/archives/list/[email protected]/thread/F4PL35U6X4VVHZ5ILJU3PWUWN7H7LZXL/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/YBSB3SUPQ3VIFYUMHPO3MEQI4BJAXKCZ/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/KFC2SPFG5FLCZBYY2K3T5MFW2D22NG6E/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/FXUVMJM25PUAZRQZBF54OFVKTY3MINPW/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/65UKKF5LBHEFDCUSPBHUN4IHYX7SRMHH/

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/622OZXWG72ISQPLM5Y57YCVIMWHD4C3U/

https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12306

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2023-10-25

Updated: 2025-02-13

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 1.7

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

Severity: Low

CVSS v3

Base Score: 3.3

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

Severity: Low

CVSS v4

Base Score: 6.8

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

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00143