CVE-2008-2942

Description

Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via ".." (dot dot) sequences in a patch file.

Risk Information

Base Score

8.6

MODERATE

Vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N/E:P/RL:O/RC:C

EPSS Score

Exploitation Probability

0.581

Associated Vulnerability

Vulnerability	OS Platform
Vulnerabilities CVE-2008-2942 are fixed in Python-mercurial 1.0.2	Windows
Vulnerabilities CVE-2008-2942 are fixed in Python-mercurial for linux 1.0.2	Linux

Patch Details

No records found

References

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2023-1234
https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2023-1234