medium5.1
CVE-2019-3902
A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9.
Impact
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.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions |
|---|---|---|
| Mercurial | Mercurial | before 4.9 |
| Debian | Debian Linux | Version 8.0 |
| Redhat | Enterprise Linux | Version 7.0 |
Weakness classification
References
- NVD record
- CVE.org record
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29