{
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2017-17536",
  "details": "Phabricator before 2017-11-10 does not block the --config and --debugger flags to the Mercurial hg program, which allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by using the web UI to browse a branch whose name begins with a --config= or --debugger= substring.",
  "aliases": [],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2017-17536"
  ],
  "related": [],
  "severity": [
    {
      "type": "CVSS_V3",
      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
    },
    {
      "type": "Ubuntu",
      "score": "medium"
    }
  ],
  "published": "2017-12-11T07:29:00Z",
  "modified": "2025-10-24T04:46:37Z",
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "phabricator",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/phabricator@0~git20160124-1ubuntu1?arch=source&distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            }
          ]
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "0~git20150803-1",
        "0~git20150906-1",
        "0~git20160124-1",
        "0~git20160124-1ubuntu1"
      ],
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "arcanist",
            "binary_version": "0~git20160124-1ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "libphutil",
            "binary_version": "0~git20160124-1ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "phabricator",
            "binary_version": "0~git20160124-1ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  ],
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-17536"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://hackerone.com/reports/288704"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://secure.phabricator.com/T13012"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-17536"
    }
  ]
}