CVE-2008-4297

N/A Unknown

Published: September 27, 2008 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/32182

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html