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Alpine: multiple mercurial packages: security update to 4.9-r0

medium Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 405581

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://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2019-3902

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 405581

Version: Revision 1.27

Type: Local

Published: 10/31/2023

Updated: 7/2/2026

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

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3

Percentile: 23.18

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

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3902