CVE-2022-21187 Information

Description

The package libvcs before 0.11.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via argument injection. When calling the update_repo function (when using hg) the url parameter is passed to the hg clone command. By injecting some hg options it was possible to get arbitrary command execution.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306 https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12 https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204 The package libvcs before 0.11.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via argument injection. When calling the update_repo function (when using hg) the url parameter is passed to the hg clone command. By injecting some hg options it was possible to get arbitrary command execution.

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.8