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openSUSE Security Update : mercurial (openSUSE-2017-689)

high Nessus Plugin ID 100830

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Synopsis

The remote openSUSE host is missing a security update.

Description

This update for mercurial fixes the following issues :

 - CVE-2017-9462: Fix the arbitrary code exec by remote users via 'hg serve --stdio' (boo#1043063)

Solution

Update the affected mercurial packages.

See Also

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043063

https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1043502

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 100830

File Name: openSUSE-2017-689.nasl

Version: 3.6

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 6/16/2017

Updated: 1/19/2021

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: High

Score: 7.4

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 9

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 8.2

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:F/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debugsource, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-debuginfo, cpe:/o:novell:opensuse:42.2, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial, p-cpe:/a:novell:opensuse:mercurial-lang

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, Host/SuSE/release, Host/SuSE/rpm-list

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 6/15/2017

Exploitable With

Metasploit (Mercurial Custom hg-ssh Wrapper Remote Code Exec)

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2017-9462