CVE-2019-3902

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Published 2022-02-15 · Modified 2024-05-01

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CVSS v3

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CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

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Description

A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

30%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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OS impact

SUSE Affected 1 release

Version	Status	Fixed in
—	Affected	—

Debian Fixed 5 releases

Version	Status	Fixed in
trixie	Fixed	`4.9-1`
sid	Fixed	`4.9-1`
forky	Fixed	`4.9-1`
bullseye	Fixed	`4.9-1`
bookworm	Fixed	`4.9-1`

Package impact

Ecosystem	Package	Vulnerable	Fixed
PyPI	mercurial	`<4.9`	`4.9`

References

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.