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.
{
"severity": "MODERATE",
"github_reviewed": true,
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-22",
"CWE-59"
],
"nvd_published_at": "2019-04-22T16:29:00Z",
"github_reviewed_at": "2024-05-01T16:49:25Z"
}