Detections
Analytics
FreeBSD : Mercurial -- multiple vulnerabilities (1d33cdee-7f6b-11e7-a9b5-3debb10a6871)
critical Nessus Plugin ID 102465
Language:
Synopsis
The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.Description
Mercurial Release Notes :CVE-2017-1000115
Mercurial's symlink auditing was incomplete prior to 4.3, and could be abused to write to files outside the repository.
CVE-2017-1000116
Mercurial was not sanitizing hostnames passed to ssh, allowing shell injection attacks on clients by specifying a hostname starting with
-oProxyCommand. This is also present in Git (CVE-2017-1000117) and Subversion (CVE-2017-9800), so please patch those tools as well if you have them installed.
Solution
Update the affected package.See Also
Plugin Details
Severity: Critical
ID: 102465
File Name: freebsd_pkg_1d33cdee7f6b11e7a9b53debb10a6871.nasl
Version: 3.8
Type: local
Family: FreeBSD Local Security Checks
Published: 8/14/2017
Updated: 12/2/2025
Supported Sensors: Nessus
Risk Information
VPR
Risk Factor: Medium
Score: 6.7
CVSS v2
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 10
Temporal Score: 7.4
Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
CVSS Score Source: CVE-2017-1000116
CVSS v3
Risk Factor: Critical
Base Score: 9.8
Temporal Score: 8.5
Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C
Vulnerability Information
CPE: p-cpe:/a:freebsd:freebsd:mercurial, cpe:/o:freebsd:freebsd
Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/FreeBSD/release, Host/FreeBSD/pkg_info
Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available
Patch Publication Date: 8/12/2017
Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/10/2017