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ubuntu-cve-2017-1000115

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2017-10-05 01:29

Modified

2025-09-08 16:44

Summary

Details

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Severity

7.5 (High)


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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-1000115	REPORT
	https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercu…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-1000115	REPORT

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        "availability": "No subscription required",
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    },
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}

CVE-2017-1000115 (GCVE-0-2017-1000115)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-10-04 01:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:53

Summary

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

5 references

URL	Tags
https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercu…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290	vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18	vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO

Date Public

2017-10-03 00:00

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date	Other

Nomenclature

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Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2017-1000115 (GCVE-0-2017-1000115)

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