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Access Restriction Bypass Affecting mercurial package, versions [,4.3)

0.0
high

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 1.35% (87th 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-PYTHON-MERCURIAL-1570173
  • published 27 Aug 2021
  • disclosed 5 Oct 2017
  • credit Unknown
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Introduced: 5 Oct 2017

CVE-2017-1000115 Open this link in a new tab
CWE-284 Open this link in a new tab

How to fix?

Upgrade mercurial to version 4.3 or higher.

Overview

mercurial is a distributed SCM tool written in Python.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Access Restriction Bypass. Mercurial is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can allow malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository.