Arbitrary File Overwrite Affecting mercurial package, versions [,4.9)
Snyk CVSS
Attack Complexity
Low
Integrity
High
Threat Intelligence
EPSS
0.23% (61st
percentile)
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Test your applications- Snyk ID SNYK-PYTHON-MERCURIAL-174511
- published 24 Apr 2019
- disclosed 22 Apr 2019
- credit Unknown
Introduced: 22 Apr 2019
CVE-2019-3902 Open this link in a new tabHow to fix?
Upgrade mercurial
to version 4.9 or higher.
Overview
mercurial is a distributed SCM tool written in Python.
Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Arbitrary File Overwrite. It is possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside of a repository.