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OESA-2026-2731 (CVE-2025-2361)

Vulnerability from osv_openeuler – Published: 2026-06-24 11:11 – Updated: 2026-08-06 11:11 – Source website

Summary

mercurial security update

Details

Mercurial is a free, distributed source control management tool. It efficiently handles projects of any size and offers an easy and intuitive interface.

Security Fix(es):

A vulnerability was found in Mercurial SCM 4.5.3/71.19.145.211. It has been declared as problematic. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the component Web Interface. The manipulation of the argument cmd leads to cross site scripting. The attack can be initiated remotely. The exploit has been disclosed to the public and may be used. The vendor was contacted early about this disclosure but did not respond in any way.(CVE-2025-2361)

Severity

4.3 (Medium)


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

References

URL

Type

	https://www.openeuler.org/zh/security/security-bu…	ADVISORY
	https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-2361	ADVISORY

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  "id": "OESA-2026-2731",
  "modified": "2026-08-06T11:11:39Z",
  "published": "2026-06-24T11:11:39Z",
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CVE-2025-2361 (GCVE-0-2025-2361)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-03-17 04:31 – Updated: 2025-03-27 21:02

Title

Mercurial SCM Web Interface cross site scripting

Summary

Severity

5.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:P/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

4.3 (Medium)


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

4.3 (Medium)


                        
                          CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-03-17 13:02 UTC

CWE

CWE-79 - Cross Site Scripting
CWE-94 - Code Injection

Assigner

VulDB mitre root

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://vuldb.com/?id.299860	vdb-entrytechnical-description
https://vuldb.com/?ctiid.299860	signaturepermissions-required
https://vuldb.com/?submit.514024	third-party-advisory
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2025/03/21/2
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
Mercurial	SCM	Affected: 4.5.3 Affected: 71.19.145.211

Credits

erickfernandox (VulDB User)

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