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ALPINE-CVE-2017-1000116 PUBLISHED CVSS 9.800000190734863 CRITICAL

Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injection attacks.

Risk Scores

CVSS v3.0

9.800000190734863

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected Products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Alpine:v3.6	mercurial	3.3-r0, 3.8.1-r0, 4.1.2-r0
Alpine:v3.4	mercurial	3.8.1-r0, 0, 1.4.1-r0
Alpine:v3.3	mercurial	1.4.1-r0, 1.4.1-r0, 1.4.2-r0
Alpine:v3.5	mercurial	4.0.1-r0, 3.9.1-r0, 3.9-r1

Timeline

Oct 5, 2017 CVE Published
Nov 19, 2025 CVE Updated
Apr 30, 2026 Distribution Patch

References

https://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-1000116 advisory

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