CVE-2008-2942: Path Traversal
First published: Mon Jun 30 2008(Updated: )
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.
Credit: cve@mitre.org cve@mitre.org
| Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
|---|---|---|
| Mercurial Mercurial | =1.0.1 | |
| pip/mercurial | <1.0.2 | 1.0.2 |
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Reference Links
- http://www.selenic.com/hg/rev/87c704ac92d4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/06/30/1
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31108
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-07/msg00006.html
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2633
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/30072
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2008/07/01/1
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200807-09.xml
- http://wiki.rpath.com/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0211
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31110
- http://secunia.com/advisories/31167
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43551
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/493881/100/0/threaded
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-2942
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-v2gw-x5jf-pgwv (Advisory)
- collector/nvd-historical
- collector/github-advisory-latest
- alias/GHSA-v2gw-x5jf-pgwv
- alias/CVE-2008-2942
- collector/github-advisory
- collector/nvd-cve
- collector/nvd-index
- agent/author
- agent/type
- agent/softwarecombine
- collector/mitre-cve
- source/MITRE
- agent/last-modified-date
- agent/references
- agent/weakness
- agent/severity
- agent/tags
- agent/description
- agent/first-publish-date
- agent/event
- agent/trending
- vendor/mercurial
- canonical/mercurial mercurial
- version/mercurial mercurial/1.0.1
- package-manager/pip