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CVE-2016-3069

• Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 5.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-04-13 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

Mercurial before 3.7.3 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a crafted name when converting a Git repository.

Affected products

• Debian Linux: 7.0, 8.0
• Fedoraproject Fedora: 22, 23
• mercurial: through 3.7.2
• openSUSE Leap: 42.1
• Opensuse: 13.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Hpc Node Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server: 7.0
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Aus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Server Eus: 7.2
• RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 7.0
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Debuginfo: 11-sp4
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Software Development Kit: 11-sp4, 12, 12-sp1

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181505.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2016-April/181542.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00016.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00017.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00018.html
• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2016-04/msg00043.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2016-0706.html
• http://www.debian.org/security/2016/dsa-3542
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/bulletinapr2016-2952098.html
• http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/topics/security/linuxbulletinapr2016-2952096.html
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201612-19
• https://selenic.com/repo/hg-stable/rev/197eed39e3d5

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