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CVE-2010-4237 Details

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:5.9 MEDIUMVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2010-4237 CVEIssue TrackingThird Party Advisory
https://bz.mercurial-scm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2407 CVEVendor Advisory
https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2010-4237 CVEThird Party Advisory
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=598841 [email protected]Issue TrackingThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-295Improper Certificate Validation[email protected]

Affected Products

ProductVersions
mercurial mercurial
< 1.6.4

CPE

  • cpe:2.3:a:mercurial:mercurial:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

Remediation

  • No remediation found in references.

Change History

4 change records found show changes

QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2010-4237
NVD Published Date:
Oct 29, 2019
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 16, 2026
Source:
[email protected]
CVE-2010-4237 Details - Not Deferred