Riskcovery

CVE-2023-5752

Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip

State
Published
Severity
5.5 Medium
Published
Oct 24, 2023
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
Oct 24, 2023

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Description

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.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.15.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NPSF

Weaknesses

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

Affected Products

ProductVersions
pipPip maintainers
  • 23.3Not affected

References

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