CVE-2019-3902

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.

Score

CVSS 3.0 5.9 Medium

Status

Modified - secalert@redhat.com

Published

2019-04-22

Last modified

2024-08-04

Weaknesses

CWE-22, CWE-59

Affected products

• Debian Linux (Debian)
• Mercurial (Mercurial)
• Enterprise Linux (Redhat)
• Mercurial (The Mercurial Project)

References

• 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