CVE-2008-4297

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2008-09-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb, which allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull" request.

Affected products

mercurial: through 1.0.1

References

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2
http://secunia.com/advisories/32182
http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223
http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229
https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2

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