Various argument and command injection issues in Sourcetree for macOS - CVE-2017-14592

Sourcetree for macOS had several argument and command injection bugs in Mercurial and Git repository handling. An attacker with permission to commit to a repository linked in Sourcetree for macOS is able to exploit this issue to gain code execution on the system. From version 1.4.0 of Sourcetree for macOS, this vulnerability can be triggered from a webpage through the use of the Sourcetree URI handler.

Affected versions:

• Versions of Sourcetree for macOS starting with 1.0b2 before version 2.7.0 are affected by this vulnerability.

Fix:

• Upgrade Sourcetree for macOS to version 2.7.0 or higher from https://www.sourcetreeapp.com/ .

Acknowledgements
Atlassian would like to credit Zhang Tianqi @ Tophant for reporting this issue to us.

For additional details see the full advisory.