CVE-2008-4297

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CVSS v3.1

N/A

EPSS

2.70%

Published

Sep 27, 2008

Modified

Jun 16, 2026

Public PoC / Exploit

All weaponized →

No public PoC or exploit code indexed for this CVE.

Links to public security research (Exploit-DB, Nuclei, Trickest, GitHub) for defensive use only.

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.

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-264

Affected Products (1)

mercurial · mercurialvulnerable

References (20)

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