Description
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.
Affected products
Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.
The Mercurial Project mercurial
before 4.9affected
References
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=CVE-2019-3902 ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2019/04/msg00024.html ↗
- https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.9_.282019-02-01.29 ↗
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/4086-1/ ↗
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2020/07/msg00032.html ↗