CVE-2017-1000115

Mercurial: pathaudit: path traversal via symlink

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Severity

Important

Red Hat Product Security

5.4

CVSS 3.0

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Published · August 10, 2017

Updated · May 13, 2026

Description

A vulnerability was found in the way Mercurial handles path auditing and caches the results. An attacker could abuse a repository with a series of commits mixing symlinks and regular files/directories to trick Mercurial into writing outside of a given repository.

CVSS score applicability

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Mitigation

No mitigation is specified in collected source.

CVSS / CWE

CVSS 3.0 · 5.4
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L

CWE-22 · Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal')