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SCA: security update for mercurial (GHSA-3v62-ww8w-758m)

high Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security Plugin ID 432808

Description

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

 - The mpatch_decode function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 mishandles certain situations where there
 should be at least 12 bytes remaining after the current position in the patch data, but actually are not,
 aka OVE-20180430-0001. (CVE-2018-13348)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-3v62-ww8w-758m

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 432808

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: High

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2018-13348

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.5

Temporal Score: 6.5

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

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

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

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

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 5/13/2022

Vulnerability Publication Date: 7/6/2018

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2018-13348

cwe: CWE-20