CVE-2017-1000115
HIGH7.5EPSS 2.1%mercurial - security update
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 11/19/2025
Also known as:ALPINE-CVE-2017-1000115DEBIAN-CVE-2017-1000115
Description
Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository
Affected packages (6)
- Alpine/mercurialfrom 0, < 4.3.1-r0
- Debian/mercurialfrom 0, < 4.3.1-1
- Debian/mercurialfrom 0, < 2.2.2-4+deb7u5
- Debian/mercurialfrom 0, < 3.1.2-2+deb8u4
- PyPI/mercurialfrom 0, < 4.3.1
- PyPI/mercurialfrom 0, < 4.3
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 4.0 | — | CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:H/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N |
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N |
References (10)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-1000115
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2017-1000115
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-1000115
- WEBhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489
- WEBhttps://github.com/pypa/advisory-database/tree/main/vulns/mercurial/PYSEC-2017-88.yaml
- WEBhttps://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18
- WEBhttps://web.archive.org/web/20200227155758/http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290
- WEBhttps://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29
- WEBhttp://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963
- WEBhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290