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CVE-2008-2942

Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

Published:Jun 25, 2008

Last Modified:Apr 23, 2026

EPS:Jun 30, 2008

EPSS Score:0.00581

CVSS Score:6.8

Affected Products

Vendor

Product

Action

Vendor

Mercurial

Product

Mercurial

Mercurial

Mercurial

Exploits

http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4 http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4

Common Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')

Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)

CAPEC-10 Buffer Overflow via Environment Variables

CAPEC-101 Server Side Include (SSI) Injection

CAPEC-104 Cross Zone Scripting

CAPEC-108 Command Line Execution through SQL Injection

CAPEC-109 Object Relational Mapping Injection

CAPEC-110 SQL Injection through SOAP Parameter Tampering

CAPEC-120 Double Encoding

CAPEC-126 Path Traversal

CAPEC-13 Subverting Environment Variable Values

CAPEC-135 Format String Injection

CAPEC-136 LDAP Injection

CAPEC-14 Client-side Injection-induced Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-153 Input Data Manipulation

CAPEC-182 Flash Injection

CAPEC-209 XSS Using MIME Type Mismatch

CAPEC-22 Exploiting Trust in Client

CAPEC-23 File Content Injection

CAPEC-230 Serialized Data with Nested Payloads

CAPEC-231 Oversized Serialized Data Payloads

CAPEC-24 Filter Failure through Buffer Overflow

CAPEC-250 XML Injection

CAPEC-261 Fuzzing for garnering other adjacent user/sensitive data

CAPEC-267 Leverage Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-28 Fuzzing

CAPEC-3 Using Leading 'Ghost' Character Sequences to Bypass Input Filters

CAPEC-31 Accessing/Intercepting/Modifying HTTP Cookies

CAPEC-42 MIME Conversion

CAPEC-43 Exploiting Multiple Input Interpretation Layers

CAPEC-45 Buffer Overflow via Symbolic Links

CAPEC-46 Overflow Variables and Tags

CAPEC-47 Buffer Overflow via Parameter Expansion

CAPEC-473 Signature Spoof

CAPEC-52 Embedding NULL Bytes

CAPEC-53 Postfix, Null Terminate, and Backslash

CAPEC-588 DOM-Based XSS

CAPEC-63 Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)

CAPEC-64 Using Slashes and URL Encoding Combined to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-664 Server Side Request Forgery

CAPEC-67 String Format Overflow in syslog()

CAPEC-7 Blind SQL Injection

CAPEC-71 Using Unicode Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-72 URL Encoding

CAPEC-73 User-Controlled Filename

CAPEC-76 Manipulating Web Input to File System Calls

CAPEC-78 Using Escaped Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-79 Using Slashes in Alternate Encoding

CAPEC-8 Buffer Overflow in an API Call

CAPEC-80 Using UTF-8 Encoding to Bypass Validation Logic

CAPEC-81 Web Server Logs Tampering

CAPEC-83 XPath Injection

CAPEC-85 AJAX Footprinting

CAPEC-88 OS Command Injection

CAPEC-9 Buffer Overflow in Local Command-Line Utilities

Related CVEs

CVE-2019-3902 (CVSS 5.1) — A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercur…

CVE-2018-17983 (CVSS 9.1) — cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest ent…

CVE-2018-13348 (CVSS 7.5) — The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there sho…

CVE-2018-13347 (CVSS 9.8) — mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles integer addition and subtraction, aka OVE-20180430-0002.…

CVE-2018-13346 (CVSS 7.5) — The mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragme…

CVE-2018-1000132 (CVSS 9.1) — Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol serv…

CVE-2017-17458 (CVSS 9.8) — In Mercurial before 4.4.1, it is possible that a specially malformed repository can cause Git subrepositories …

CVE-2017-1000115 (CVSS 7.5) — Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to mod…

CVE-2017-1000116 (CVSS 9.8) — Mercurial prior to 4.3 did not adequately sanitize hostnames passed to ssh, leading to possible shell-injectio…

CVE-2017-9462 (CVSS 8.8) — In Mercurial before 4.1.3, "hg serve --stdio" allows remote authenticated users to launch the Python debugger,…

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/31108

http://secunia.com/advisories/31110

http://secunia.com/advisories/31167

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.xml

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0211

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/01/1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493881/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30072

http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43551

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2633

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html

http://secunia.com/advisories/31108

http://secunia.com/advisories/31110

http://secunia.com/advisories/31167

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.xml

http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0211

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/01/1

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493881/100/0/threaded

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30072

http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43551

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2633

Common Vulnerability Scoring System

Attack Vector

Network

Adjacent

Local

Physical

Privileges Required

None

Low

High

User Interaction

None

Required

Scope

Unchanged

Changed

Confidentiality

None

Low

High

Integrity

None

Low

High

Availability

None

Low

High