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CVE-2008-4297
Mercurial before 1.0.2 does not enforce the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb, which allows remote attackers to…
Medium5.0EPSS 2.7%
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- mitre
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.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.7% · top 14% of all CVEs (3 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Weakness
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (10)
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- ADV-2008-2604 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- SUSE-SR:2008:020 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSEx_transferred
- [oss-security] 20080918 CVE Request (mercurial) (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_MLISTx_transferred
- 32182 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- mercurial-allowpull-info-disclosure(45229) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 20080917 rPSA-2008-0276-1 mercurial mercurial-hgk (opens in a new tab)mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQx_transferred
- 31223 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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