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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 11:01

Modified

2025-11-06 13:25

Summary

Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip

Details

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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CVE-2023-5752 (GCVE-0-2023-5752)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-10-24 20:56 – Updated: 2025-11-03 17:31

Title

Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip

Summary

Severity

5.5 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-08-08 13:38 UTC

CWE

CWE-77 - Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in a Command ('Command Injection')

Assigner

PSF mitre root

References

8 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/pypa/pip/pull/12306	patch
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-an…	vendor-advisory
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/pac…
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Pip maintainers	pip	Unaffected: 23.3

Credits

Paul Gerste

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