CVE-2022-21187

Advisory

Libvcs before 0.11.1 is 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.

Affected package

Affected versions

Fixed versions

Vulnerability changelog

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. See CVE-2022-21187.


MISC:https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12: https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12
MISC:https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306: https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306
MISC:https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204: https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204

Resources

• https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12
• https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306
• https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2022-21187