CVE-2010-4237

medium

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.

References

Advisories
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https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841

https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-10-29

Updated: 2019-10-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N