Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource Affecting emacs-mercurial-el package, versions <0:2.6.2-10.el7


Severity

Recommended
medium

Based on Oracle Linux security rating.

Threat Intelligence

EPSS
2.62% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-ORACLE7-EMACSMERCURIALEL-2539361
  • published10 Apr 2022
  • disclosed14 Mar 2018

Introduced: 14 Mar 2018

CVE-2018-1000132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-732  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade Oracle:7 emacs-mercurial-el to version 0:2.6.2-10.el7 or higher.
This issue was patched in ELSA-2019-2276.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream emacs-mercurial-el package and not the emacs-mercurial-el package as distributed by Oracle. See How to fix? for Oracle:7 relevant fixed versions and status.

Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.5.1.