Mercurial Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability · CVE-2018-17983 · GitHub Advisory Database · GitHub

Mercurial Out-of-bounds Read vulnerability

Critical severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 14, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated May 1, 2024

Package

mercurial (pip)

Affected versions

< 4.7.2

Patched versions

4.7.2

Description

cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database

Oct 4, 2018

Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 14, 2022

Reviewed May 1, 2024

Last updated May 1, 2024

Severity

Critical

9.1

/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector

Network

Attack complexity

Low

Privileges required

None

User interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

High

Integrity

None

Availability

High

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