Directory Traversal Affecting emacs-mercurial package, versions <0:2.6.2-8.el7_4
Threat Intelligence
The probability is the direct output of the EPSS model, and conveys an overall sense of the threat of exploitation in the wild. The percentile measures the EPSS probability relative to all known EPSS scores. Note: This data is updated daily, relying on the latest available EPSS model version. Check out the EPSS documentation for more details.
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- published26 Jul 2021
- disclosed10 Aug 2017
Introduced: 10 Aug 2017
CVE-2017-1000115 (opens in a new tab)How to fix?
Upgrade Centos:7 emacs-mercurial to version 0:2.6.2-8.el7_4 or higher.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-mercurial package and not the emacs-mercurial package as distributed by Centos.
See How to fix? for Centos:7 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
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000115
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489