Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-9462

Title: Mercurial RCE

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-9462.

CWE Category CWE-732

Published Date Jun 06, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.8 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

48.70%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-9462: In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name.

Impacted Vendors

mercurial 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99123 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1576 https://bugs.debian.org/861243 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/77eaf9539499 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.1.3_.282017-4-18.29 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/99123 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1576 https://bugs.debian.org/861243 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/07/msg00005.html https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/77eaf9539499 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.1.3_.282017-4-18.29

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.8

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

9.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns