CVE-2019-3902
mediumpriority · track · 24EPSS 0.014 · 72 %ileEURUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
A 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.
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affected products (12)
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advisories (2)
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- GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246Mercurial Path Traversal/Link Following vulnerability2022-02-15ghsa · osvUS
A 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.
- PYSEC-2019-1882019-04-22vendor · osvUS
A 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.
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references (26)
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- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902cnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.htmlcnnvd
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.htmlcnnvd
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2019-3902cnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/153955/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-4086-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/164390/Ubuntu-Security-Notice-USN-5102-1.htmlcnnvd
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/cnnvd
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/mercurial-directory-traversal-29138cnnvd
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