Mercurial configuration injectable in repo revision when installing via pip
CVE-2023-5752

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Key Information:

Vendor: Pip Maintainers
Status: Pip
Vendor: CVE Published:; 25 October 2023

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What is CVE-2023-5752?

When installing a package from a Mercurial VCS URL (ie "pip install hg+...") with pip prior to v23.3, the specified Mercurial revision could be used to inject arbitrary configuration options to the "hg clone" call (ie "--config"). Controlling the Mercurial configuration can modify how and which repository is installed. This vulnerability does not affect users who aren't installing from Mercurial.