HTTP Permission Bypass Affecting mercurial package, versions [,4.5.2)


0.0
critical

Snyk CVSS

    Attack Complexity Low
    Confidentiality High
    Integrity High

    Threat Intelligence

    EPSS 0.29% (69th percentile)
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NVD
9.1 critical
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Red Hat
6.5 medium

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  • Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-MERCURIAL-42088
  • published 21 Mar 2018
  • disclosed 14 Mar 2018
  • credit Unknown

How to fix?

Upgrade mercurial to version 4.5.2 or higher.

Overview

Mercurial is a distributed SCM tool.

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to HTTP Permission Bypass, which may allow an attacker to perform writes on repositories that should be read-only, or reads on repositories that shouldn't allow read access.