CVE-2008-4297

Impact

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.

Affected products

Weakness classification

References

• NVD record
• CVE.org record
• 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
• 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