CVE-2010-4237

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.

Score

CVSS 3.1 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - security@ubuntu.com

Published

2019-10-29

Last modified

2024-08-07

Weaknesses

CWE-295

Affected products

• Mercurial (Mercurial)

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