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PYSEC-2022-163

Quick fix

PYSEC-2022-163 — libvcs: upgrade to the fixed version with the command below.

pip install --upgrade 'libvcs>=0.11.1'

Details

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.

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Affected packages

PyPI/libvcs

Introduced in: 0Fixed in: 0.11.1

Fixpip install --upgrade 'libvcs>=0.11.1'

References

https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/pull/306[WEB]
https://github.com/vcs-python/libvcs/blob/v0.11.1/CHANGES%23libvcs-0111-2022-03-12[WEB]
https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-LIBVCS-2421204[ADVISORY]