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CVE-2018-5223 — Fisheye and Crucible did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repositor

Fisheye and Crucible did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may consider argument parameters. An attacker who has permission to add a repository in Fisheye or Crucible can execute code of their choice on

CVSS
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EPSS
0.91% (top 24.40%)
CWE
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Published
2018-03-29T13:00:00.000Z
Last modified
2024-09-16T19:56:55.062Z
CVSS vector
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01What is this vulnerability?

Fisheye and Crucible did not correctly check if a configured Mercurial repository URI contained values that the Windows operating system may consider argument parameters. An attacker who has permission to add a repository in Fisheye or Crucible can execute code of their choice on systems that run a vulnerable version of Fisheye or Crucible on the Windows operating system. All versions of Fisheye…

02Affected products

VendorProductVersions
AtlassianFisheye and Crucibleunspecified, 4.5.0, unspecified

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

09References

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