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Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2019-3902

medium Nessus Plugin ID 222907

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Synopsis

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed with a vulnerability that the vendor indicates will not be patched.

Description

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

 - 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)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

Solution

There is no known solution at this time.

See Also

https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/cve-2019-3902

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 222907

File Name: unpatched_CVE_2019_3902.nasl

Version: 1.3

Type: local

Agent: unix

Family: Misc.

Published: 3/4/2025

Updated: 9/3/2025

Supported Sensors: Frictionless Assessment AWS, Frictionless Assessment Azure, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Agentless Assessment, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.6

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

CPE: cpe:/o:centos:centos:7, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mercurial-chg, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-mercurial-el, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mercurial-chg, cpe:/o:centos:centos:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-mercurial, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mercurial-hgk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:emacs-mercurial-el, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:emacs-mercurial, p-cpe:/a:centos:centos:mercurial, cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:8, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mercurial-hgk, p-cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_linux:mercurial

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/cpu, global_settings/vendor_unpatched, Host/OS/identifier

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Vulnerability Publication Date: 4/22/2019

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2019-3902