{"action":"Upgrade mercurial to 1.0.1-2 or later.","affected":[{"fixed":"1.0.1-2","introduced":"0"}],"component":"mercurial","cve_ids":[],"ecosystem":"Debian","ecosystem_qualifier":"Debian:14","exploited":false,"fixed_versions":["1.0.1-2"],"id":"tcs_01M5N9231WB03MAWESDWT8SH4G","modified_at":"2026-10-23T17:47:32.352894562Z","published_at":"2008-06-30T20:41:00Z","references":["https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2942","https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-2942"],"severity":{"label":"unknown"},"sources":[{"source":"osv","source_id":"DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2942#Debian:14/mercurial","url":"https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-2942"}],"summary":"Directory traversal vulnerability in patch.py in Mercurial 1.0.1 allows user-assisted attackers to modify arbitrary files via \"..\" (dot dot) sequences in a patch file."}