ubuntu · CVE-2017-9462

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Priority: medium Published: 2017-06-06 21:29:00 UTC Updated: 2025-08-25 22:41:43 UTC

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Freshness: upstream tracker timestamp is available; use API updated time as primary recency signal.

Tracker summary

CVE-2017-9462 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mercurial), 8 status rows across 8 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, trusty, upstream, xenial, yakkety, zesty): released 3, ignored 2, not-affected 2, needs-triage 1.

Description:

In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger, and consequently execute arbitrary code, by using --debugger as a repository name.

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