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 read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull"
02 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"
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 2.69% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 85.6% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- Moderate. Red Hat's rating for its own products, not a CVSS rating.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2008-09-27 00:00Z18 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 10:08Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2008-09-26
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 3a711527c870fa1234a87472ccda7f0cdf430614b157846654f98890e6ca86f7
05 Affected products
06 References
- wiki.rpath.comhttp://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276
- issues.rpath.comhttps://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753
- www.vupen.comADV-2008-2604http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604
- lists.opensuse.orgSUSE-SR:2008:020http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html
- marc.info[oss-security] 20080918 CVE Request (mercurial)http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2
- secunia.com32182http://secunia.com/advisories/32182
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commercurial-allowpull-info-disclosure(45229)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229
- www.selenic.comhttp://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b
- www.securityfocus.com20080917 rPSA-2008-0276-1 mercurial mercurial-hgkhttp://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded
- www.securityfocus.com31223http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223
07 Fixed in
Debian 12
- mercurial Fixed in 1.0.1-5.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 13
- mercurial Fixed in 1.0.1-5.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
Debian 14
- mercurial Fixed in 1.0.1-5.1
Source: Debian Security Tracker, the Debian security team. Received through OSV.dev. Reformatted by exploit.cc.
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