CVE-2019-3902

medium

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.

References

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29

https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2019-04-22

Updated: 2020-07-31

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 5.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N