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SCA: security update for mercurial (GHSA-p575-cf9h-wv42)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432406

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest
 entry. (CVE-2018-17983)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-p575-cf9h-wv42

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432406

Version: Revision 1.4

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/8/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.3

Percentile: 53.04

Vendor

Vendor Severity: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.4

Temporal Score: 4.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-17983

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 9.1

Temporal Score: 7.9

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

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Threat Score: 6.8

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/14/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 10/4/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-17983

cwe: CWE-125