vulnerability

Amazon Linux AMI: CVE-2017-1000115: Security patch for mercurial (ALAS-2017-893)

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N)
Published
Sep 13, 2017
Added
Dec 20, 2017
Modified
Aug 25, 2020

Description

Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Solution

amazon-linux-upgrade-mercurial
Title
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