CVE-2008-2942

mediumpriority · track · 28EPSS 0.019 · 80 %ileEUUS

grimoire priorityP3 · Track

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

1.90% (80th) EPSS

CVSS 6.8 · medium

Is it mine?

3 products

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Who says so?

3 sources

enisa_euvd · osv · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

Directory 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.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

6.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.06.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:Pprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8.6 · impact 6.4

v2.05.8mediumAV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-22USprimaryCWE-22US

affected products (3)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

n/a n/a≤ n/aenisa_euvdEU
mercurial mercurial= 1.0.1nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mercurial:mercurial:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
PyPI mercurial< 1.0.2osvUSpkg:pypi/mercurial

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

GHSA-v2gw-x5jf-pgwvMercurial Directory traversal vulnerability2022-05-01ghsa · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial before 1.0.2 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.
PYSEC-2026-666Mercurial Directory traversal vulnerability2026-07-02vendor · osvUS
Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial before 1.0.2 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

also known as (5)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

enisa_euvd osv nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2008-06-30modified 2026-06-16

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references (26)

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