CVE-2010-4237 Information

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.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

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

Attack Complexity

HIGH

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

NONE

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

NONE

Base Severity

5.9