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.
Weakness
The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate.
Affected Software
| Name | Vendor | Start Version | End Version |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mercurial | Mercurial | * | 1.6.4 (excluding) |
| Mercurial | Ubuntu | hardy | * |
| Mercurial | Ubuntu | lucid | * |
| Mercurial | Ubuntu | upstream | * |
Potential Mitigations
Related Attack Patterns
References
- 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237
- 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://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237