CVE-2014-9462: Mercurial

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The _validaterepo function in sshpeer in Mercurial before 3.2.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands via a crafted repository name in a clone command.

Affected products

• Mercurial Mercurial: up to and including 3.2.3
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 13.1 only; version 13.2 only

Published 2015-03-31. Last modified 2026-06-17.