CVE-2019-3902

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Summary

CVECVE-2019-3902
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2019-04-22 16:29:00 UTC
Updated2020-07-31 13:15:00 UTC
DescriptionA 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-59

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Operating System Debian Debian Linux 8.0 All All All
Application Mercurial Mercurial All All All All
Application Mercurial Mercurial All All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All
Operating System Redhat Enterprise Linux 7.0 All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
[SECURITY] [DLA 2293-1] mercurial security update MLIST lists.debian.org
1696025 – (CVE-2019-3902) CVE-2019-3902 mercurial: Path-checking logic bypass via symlinks and subrepositories CONFIRM bugzilla.redhat.com Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory
WhatsNew - Mercurial MISC www.mercurial-scm.org Third Party Advisory
[SECURITY] [DLA 1764-1] mercurial security update MLIST lists.debian.org Third Party Advisory
USN-4086-1: Mercurial vulnerability | Ubuntu security notices | Ubuntu UBUNTU usn.ubuntu.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Legacy QID Mappings

  • 198582 Ubuntu Security Notification for Mercurial Vulnerabilities (USN-5102-1)
  • 500402 Alpine Linux Security Update for mercurial
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