GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246

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    GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246

    Published: 15 Feb 2022Last Modified: 25 Sept 2024

    Summary: Mercurial Path Traversal/Link Following vulnerability

    Details: A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository.

    References: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3902, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902, https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2019-188.yaml, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html, https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html, https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1, https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: mercurial

    Purl: pkg:pypi/mercurial

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.9

    Affected versions

    0.8.1

    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