GHSA-7gf7-7wx4-mxmwMediumCVSS 5.9
Mercurial Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
Mercurial before 1.6.4 fails to verify the Common Name field of SSL certificates which allows remote attackers who acquire a certificate signed by a Certificate Authority to perform a man-in-the-middle attack.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/mercurial:< 1.6.4
🔗 References (10)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4237
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237
- https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237
- https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/4ea63fb25ceeeaaa4cd1026f733b7ea7672c30b3
- https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/89baabf4fb7abf30ef6fdcf3d455a7893e5cc145
- https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/6ab4a7d3c179
- https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/f2937d6492c5
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-7gf7-7wx4-mxmw