Link Following Affecting mercurial package, versions <3.1.2-2+deb8u4
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
1.35% (86th
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-DEBIAN8-MERCURIAL-311075
- published 5 Oct 2017
- disclosed 5 Oct 2017
Introduced: 5 Oct 2017
CVE-2017-1000115 Open this link in a new tabHow 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
References
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000115
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29
- https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-1000115
- http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-1000115