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Link Following Affecting mercurial package, versions <3.1.2-2+deb8u4

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.35% (86th percentile)
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NVD
7.5 high
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Red Hat
5.4 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-MERCURIAL-311075
  • published 5 Oct 2017
  • disclosed 5 Oct 2017
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Introduced: 5 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000115 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-59 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade Debian:8 mercurial to version 3.1.2-2+deb8u4 or higher.

NVD Description

Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream mercurial package and not the mercurial package as distributed by Debian. See How to fix? for Debian:8 relevant fixed versions and status.

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