Directory Traversal Affecting mercurial package, versions *


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

Based on CentOS security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.17% (54th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CENTOS7-MERCURIAL-2001092
  • published26 Jul 2021
  • disclosed13 Mar 2019

Introduced: 13 Mar 2019

CVE-2019-3902  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-22  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

There is no fixed version for Centos:7 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:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

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.