Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9462

RCE

Title: Mercurial RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9462.

CWE Category CWE-20

Published Date Mar 31, 2015

Modified Date May 06, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.13%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9462: 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.

Impacted Vendors

mercurial 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.osvdb.org/119816 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19 http://chargen.matasano.com/chargen/2015/3/17/this-new-vulnerability-mercurial-command-injection-cve-2014-9462.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2015-03/msg00085.html http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/WhatsNew http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3257 http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinjul2015-2511963.html http://www.osvdb.org/119816 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9462 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

May 06, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 12, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

March 31, 2015 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.