Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource

Affecting mercurial package, versions <3.1.2-2+deb8u5

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Overview

Mercurial version 4.5 and earlier contains a Incorrect Access Control (CWE-285) vulnerability in Protocol server that can result in Unauthorized data access. This attack appear to be exploitable via network connectivity. This vulnerability appears to have been fixed in 4.5.1.

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CVSS Score

9.1
high severity
  • Attack Vector
    Network
  • Attack Complexity
    Low
  • Privileges Required
    None
  • User Interaction
    None
  • Scope
    Unchanged
  • Confidentiality
    High
  • Integrity
    High
  • Availability
    None
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
CVE
CVE-2018-1000132
CWE
CWE-732
Snyk ID
SNYK-DEBIAN8-MERCURIAL-311112
Disclosed
14 Mar, 2018
Published
14 Mar, 2018