Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-1000115

Title: Mercurial

Other

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-1000115.

CWE Category CWE-59

Published Date Oct 05, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

2.14%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-1000115: Mercurial prior to version 4.3 is vulnerable to a missing symlink check that can malicious repositories to modify files outside the repository

Impacted Vendors

mercurial 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29 http://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-3963 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100290 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2489 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201709-18 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNew#Mercurial_4.3_.2F_4.3.1_.282017-08-10.29

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:N

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns