PT-2008-5558 · Mercurial · Mercurial

Josh Bressers · Published 2008-09-27 · Updated 2018-10-11 · CVE-2008-4297

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Mercurial versions prior to 1.0.2

Description: The issue concerns the enforcement of the allowpull permission setting for a pull operation from hgweb. It allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files from a repository via an "hg pull" request.

Recommendations: For versions prior to 1.0.2, update to version 1.0.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-264

Related Identifiers

CVE-2008-4297

Affected Products

Mercurial

References · 15

• http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4297 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4297 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2008-4297 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2008-4297 · Vendor Advisory
• http://selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b · Note
• http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/32182 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/31223 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2 · Note
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604 · Note
• https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753 · Note
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-4297 · Note