Fluid Attacks Database

Description

Mercurial Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability 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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

Ecosystem	Package	Affected version	Patched versions
pypi	mercurial	>=0 <1.6.4	1.6.4
debian 13	mercurial	>=0 <1.6.4-1	1.6.4-1
debian 14	mercurial	>=0 <1.6.4-1	1.6.4-1
debian 11	mercurial	>=0 <1.6.4-1	1.6.4-1
debian 12	mercurial	>=0 <1.6.4-1	1.6.4-1
rpm rhel6	mercurial	-	-

Aliases

1. CVE-2010-42372. NVD-2010-42373. OSV-2010-42374. OSV-DEBIAN-2010-42375. GCVE-2010-42376. SECURITY-TRACKER-CVE-2010-4237

References

1. https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/4ea63fb25ceeeaaa4cd1026f733b7ea7672c30b32. https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/89baabf4fb7abf30ef6fdcf3d455a7893e5cc1453. https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=5988414. https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-42375. https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24076. https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/6ab4a7d3c1797. https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/f2937d6492c5