It was discovered that Mercurial mishandled symlinks in subrepositories. An attacker could use this issue to write arbitrary files to the target’s filesystem. (CVE-2019-3902)
It was discovered that Mercurial incorrectly handled certain manifest files. An attacker could use this issue to cause a denial of service and possibly execute arbitrary code. (CVE-2018-17983)
{ "availability": "No subscription required", "binaries": [ { "binary_version": "4.5.3-1ubuntu2.2", "binary_name": "mercurial" }, { "binary_version": "4.5.3-1ubuntu2.2", "binary_name": "mercurial-common" } ] }
{ "cves_map": { "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS", "cves": [ { "severity": [ { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H" }, { "type": "Ubuntu", "score": "medium" } ], "id": "CVE-2018-17983" }, { "severity": [ { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N" }, { "type": "CVSS_V3", "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N" }, { "type": "Ubuntu", "score": "medium" } ], "id": "CVE-2019-3902" } ] } }