CVE-2017-1000115 - Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink

HIGH

Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink

Published Oct 4, 2017

8.7

HIGH

CVSS 4.0

EPSS 4.81%

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Product	Package	State	Advisory
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7	mercurial-0:2.6.2-8.el7_4	Fixed	RHSA-2017:2489
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6	mercurial	Will not fix	n/a

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (2)

CWE-22

Path Traversal

CWE-59

Link	Providers	Tags
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIANThird Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290		vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHATThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-1000115		Vendor Advisory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1480330		Issue Tracking
https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2017-0070		Advisory
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-hvr9-wr9p-grgr		Advisory
https://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-88.yaml
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000115
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
https://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000115
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29		x_refsource_CONFIRMRelease NotesVendor Advisory