Directory Traversal Affecting mercurial package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
high

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
4.82% (92nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS6-MERCURIAL-1973612
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed10 Aug 2017

Introduced: 10 Aug 2017

CVE-2017-1000115  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:6 mercurial.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mercurial package and not the mercurial package as distributed by Centos. See How to fix? for Centos:6 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository