CVE-2008-4297
MEDIUM · CVSS 5.0EPSS 2.7%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 5.0 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-264
- EPSS score
- 2.7% (86th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2008-4280)
- Published
- September 27, 2008
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2008-4280 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mercurial / mercurial
References
- 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
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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