{"id":"CVE-2018-5226","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2018-5226","generatedAt":"2026-10-28T21:31:43.856Z","title":"There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows via Mercurial repository tag name that is going to be deleted.","description":"There was an argument injection vulnerability in Sourcetree for Windows via Mercurial repository tag name that is going to be deleted. An attacker with permission to create a tag on a Mercurial repository linked in Sourcetree for Windows is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system. All versions of Sourcetree for Windows before 2.5.5.0 are affected by this vulnerability.","published":"2018-04-25T21:29:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-17T01:59:52.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"security@atlassian.com","cvss":{"version":"3.0","score":8.8,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"},"cwe":[],"affected":["atlassian/sourcetree"],"epss":{"score":0.01435,"percentile":0.72964,"date":"2026-10-27","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"high","text":"High impact if exploited, but EPSS currently rates exploitation as unlikely (1.44%). Schedule it in the normal patch cycle and watch for a rise in EPSS or a public exploit."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-8509","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"security@atlassian.com"},{"url":"https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/SRCTREEWIN-8509","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-5226","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}