Security Advisory

CVE-2022-21187

8.1
HIGH

Vulnerability Description

The package libvcs before 0.11.1 are vulnerable to Command Injection via argument injection. When calling the update_repo function (when using hg), the url parameter is passed to the hg clone command. By injecting some hg options it was possible to get arbitrary command execution.
Published Date March 14, 2022
Official Source NIST NVD Advisory