Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-1000116

RCE

Title: Mercurial RCE

RCE

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-1000116.

CWE Category CWE-78

Published Date Oct 05, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 9.8 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

4.59%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-1000116: Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

Impacted Vendors

mercurial 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity CRITICAL

9.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

10.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns