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CVE-2022-21187

HIGH · CVSS 8.1 EPSS 3.59% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2022-03-14 · Last synced 2026-08-04

CyberRota Analysis

This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 8.1. Public exploit code or proof-of-concept references have been detected in its references.

Public Exploit Signal

A public exploit, PoC, GitHub repository or Metasploit reference was detected for this CVE.

GitHub PoC Links
github.com ↗ github.com ↗

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CVE
CVE-2022-21187
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
8.1
EPSS
3.59%

Original NVD Description

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.