CVE-2023-5752

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Published 2023-10-25 · Modified 2026-03-24

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Mixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`23.3+dfsg-1`
sid	Fixed	`23.3+dfsg-1`
forky	Fixed	`23.3+dfsg-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`20.3.4-4+deb11u2`
bookworm	Affected	—

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	pip	`<23.3`	`23.3`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.