CVE-2008-4297

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    CVE-2008-4297

    Published: 27 Sept 2008Last Modified: 10 Apr 2026

    Summary:

    Details: 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.

    References: http://secunia.com/advisories/32182, http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604, http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html, http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2, 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, https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229, https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753

    Affected packages

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High