CVEvulnerability

CVE-2008-2942

6.8 MEDIUM Published 2008-06-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2008-06-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.8 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-22

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.

Affected configurations

• mercurial mercurial 1.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-22 Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory weakness

References