Name: CVE-2019-3902: Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2019-04-22T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2019-3902, CWE-22, CWE-59, CVSS 5.9, EPSS 0.00749

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 5.9
CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 5.1
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N)

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Alpine Linux	—	Upgrade mercurial	Nov 8, 2019	Apr 22, 2019
Debian	—	Upgrade mercurial	Apr 26, 2019	Apr 22, 2019
Oracle Solaris	—	Upgrade developer/versioning/mercurial-27 to version 4.9.1-11.4.14.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4Upgrade developer/versioning/mercurial to version 4.9.1-11.4.14.0.1.2.0 on Solaris 11.4	Oct 16, 2019	Apr 22, 2019
Redhat_linux	—	No solution exists	Jul 9, 2025	Apr 22, 2019
Suse	—	Upgrade mercurial-langUpgrade mercurial	Jun 28, 2020	Apr 22, 2019
Ubuntu	—	Upgrade mercurial (Ubuntu Pro)Upgrade mercurial-commonUpgrade mercurialUpgrade mercurial-common (Ubuntu Pro)	Aug 7, 2019	Apr 22, 2019
Vmware Photon_os	—	Use 'tdnf update' to upgrade all packages to the latest version.	Jan 20, 2025	Apr 22, 2019

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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