CVE-2017-1000115 — Link Following in Mercurial

CWE-59 — Link FollowingCWE-22 — Path Traversal10 documents7 sources
Severity
7.5HIGHNVD
EPSS
2.1%
top 15.76%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
9
MercurialMemcachedDebian Linux+6 more
Timeline
PublishedOct 5
Latest updateMay 14

Description

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

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:NExploitability: 3.9 | Impact: 3.6

Affected Packages7 packages

▶PyPImercurial/mercurial< 4.3.1
▶Debianmercurial/mercurial< 4.3.1-1+3
▶Ubuntumemcached/memcached< 1.4.14-0ubuntu9.2+1

Also affects: Debian Linux 8.0, 9.0, Enterprise Linux 7.4, 7.6, 7.5

🔴Vulnerability Details

5
GHSA
Mercurial missing symlink check↗2022-05-14
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OSV
Mercurial missing symlink check↗2022-05-14
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OSV
memcached vulnerabilities↗2018-03-05
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OSV
CVE-2017-1000115: Mercurial prior to version 4↗2017-10-05
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CVEList
CVE-2017-1000115: Mercurial prior to version 4↗2017-10-04
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📋Vendor Advisories

2
Red Hat
Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink↗2017-08-10
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Debian
CVE-2017-1000115: mercurial - Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can...↗2017
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000115 Mercurial: path traversal via symlink [fedora-all]↗2017-08-11
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Bugzilla
CVE-2017-1000115 Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink↗2017-08-10
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