Vulnerabilites related to Pip maintainers - pip
cve-2023-5752
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2023-10-24 20:56
Modified
2025-02-13 17:25
Summary
When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.
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