What is CVE-2023-5752?

CVE-2023-5752 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pip Maintainers, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-24.

How severe is CVE-2023-5752?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.

Is CVE-2023-5752 known to be exploited?

20 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.

RCE in Pip Maintainers

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"). Cont…

Vulnerability class: Command Injection (OS Command Injection)

EPSS: 0.001 (22.7th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 5.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N.

Affected products

Pip Maintainers — versions 23.3

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-77 — Command Injection

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2023-5752?: CVE-2023-5752 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Pip Maintainers, classified under Command Injection. CVSS score: 5.5/10. Published 2023-10-24.
How severe is CVE-2023-5752?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 5.5 out of 10.
Is CVE-2023-5752 known to be exploited?: 20 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.