CVE-2008-2942

Summary

CVECVE-2008-2942
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-06-30 20:41:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:45:00 UTC
DescriptionDirectory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-22

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mercurial Mercurial 1.0.1 All All All
Application Mercurial Mercurial 1.0.1 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0211 CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Gentoo update for mercurial - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
Mercurial Multiple Vulnerabilities - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
oss-security - CVE id request mercurial:Insufficient input validation MLIST www.openwall.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report SUSE-SR:2008:015 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
SUSE Update for Multiple Packages - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2633 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
Mercurial 'patch.py' Directory Traversal Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Mercurial: 87c704ac92d4 CONFIRM www.selenic.com Exploit
oss-security - Re: CVE id request mercurial:Insufficient input validation MLIST www.openwall.com
Mercurial: Directory traversal — Gentoo Linux Documentation GENTOO security.gentoo.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 995369 Python (Pip) Security Update for mercurial (GHSA-v2gw-x5jf-pgwv)
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