Executive brief
Mercurial Directory traversal vulnerability
Affected products
- PyPI mercurial
Junglewise Threat Intelligence
CVE-2008-2942: PYSEC-2026-666 - Mercurial Directory traversal vulnerability
CVE-2008-2942 · Severity: info · Published 2026-07-02
Technologies: mercurial (PyPI). Vendors: PyPI.
Related threats
- PYSEC-2026-665 - Mercurial Improper Certificate Validation vulnerability
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- PYSEC-2019-188 - 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
- PYSEC-2018-91 - cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry.
- PYSEC-2018-88 - The mpatch_apply function in mpatch.c in Mercurial before 4.6.1 incorrectly proceeds in cases where the fragment start is past the end of th