Vigil@nce - mercurial: directory traversal
June 2019 by Vigil@nce
This bulletin was written by Vigil@nce : https://vigilance.fr/offer/Computer-vulnerability-database-and-alert
SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Debian.
Severity: 2/4.
Consequences: data reading, data creation/edition.
Provenance: internet client.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 26/04/2019.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can traverse directories of mercurial, in order to
read or wtite to a file outside the service root path.
ACCESS TO THE FULL VIGIL@NCE BULLETIN
https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/mercurial-directory-traversal-29138