CVE-2018-17983 Information

Description

cext/manifest.c in Mercurial before 4.7.2 has an out-of-bounds read during parsing of a malformed manifest entry.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

https://www.mercurial-scm.org/repo/hg/rev/5405cb1a7901 https://www.mercurial-scm.org/wiki/WhatsNewMercurial_4.7.2_.282018-10-01.29

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

NONE

User Interaction Required

NONE

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

NONE

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

9.1