USN-5102-2: mercurial Ubuntu

CVSS: UnknownPublished
Published 16-03-2021Last modified 29-06-2026
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Vulnerability summary

USN-5102-2 is a vulnerability in mercurial Ubuntu with no CVSS score yet.

Overall risk
0/100
0100
Minimal · default modelHow is this calculated?
CVSS score
Not scored
010
No CVSS score recorded
EPSS score
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0%100%
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KEVNot listedIn no KEV catalog
RansomwareNone recordedNo known use recorded
Public exploits0No public exploits recorded

Advisory lineage

Upstream 2 · Downstream 0 · Related 2
CVE-2018-17983CVE-2019-3902

Timeline

  1. 16-03-2021
    PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
  2. 29-06-2026
    Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

mercurial vulnerabilities USN-5102-1 fixed vulnerabilities in Mercurial. This update provides the corresponding updates for Ubuntu 14.04 ESM and Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. Original advisory details: 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. This issue only affected Ubuntu 16.04 ESM. (CVE-2018-17983)

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Public exploits

0 found

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Weaknesses

CWE · root cause

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Affected systems

Ubuntu1 product
  • mercurial< 2.8.2-1ubuntu1.4+esm1 | < 3.7.3-1ubuntu1.2+esm2

1 vendor · 1 product

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