GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246MediumCVSS 5.9
Mercurial Path Traversal/Link Following vulnerability
🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)
📋 Description
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.
🎯 Affected products1
- pip/mercurial:< 4.9
🔗 References (8)
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3902
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1
- https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2019-188.yaml
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246