CVE-2010-4237
unknown
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
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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.
Predictions
Exploit likelihood
30%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.
Mitigations
No mitigations published for this CVE yet.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
OS impact
Debian Fixed 5 releases
| Version | Status | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| trixie | Fixed | 1.6.4-1 |
| sid | Fixed | 1.6.4-1 |
| forky | Fixed | 1.6.4-1 |
| bullseye | Fixed | 1.6.4-1 |
| bookworm | Fixed | 1.6.4-1 |
Package impact
| Ecosystem | Package | Vulnerable | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| PyPI | mercurial | <1.6.4 | 1.6.4 |
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2010-4237
- https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/4ea63fb25ceeeaaa4cd1026f733b7ea7672c30b3
- https://github.com/dscho/hg/commit/89baabf4fb7abf30ef6fdcf3d455a7893e5cc145
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237
- https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407
- https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/6ab4a7d3c179
- https://repo.mercurial-scm.org/hg/rev/f2937d6492c5
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.