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SCA: security update for mercurial (GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 432768

Description

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

 - A flaw was found in Mercurial before 4.9. It was possible to use symlinks and subrepositories to defeat
 Mercurial's path-checking logic and write files outside a repository. (CVE-2019-3902)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-mq66-vcfc-8246

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 432768

Version: Revision 1.2

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 8/11/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.8

Temporal Score: 4.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2019-3902

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.9

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/15/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3902