CVE-2008-4297

Summary

CVECVE-2008-4297
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2008-09-27 10:30:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-11 20:51:00 UTC
DescriptionMercurial 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Mercurial Mercurial All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
IBM X-Force Exchange XF exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
WhatsNew - Mercurial CONFIRM www.selenic.com
Mercurial hgweb 'allowpull' Information Disclosure Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com
issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753 CONFIRM issues.rpath.com
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
SUSE update for mercurial - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com SECUNIA secunia.com
'[oss-security] CVE Request (mercurial)' - MARC MLIST marc.info
[security-announce] SUSE Security Summary Report: SUSE-SR:2008:020 SUSE lists.opensuse.org
wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 CONFIRM wiki.rpath.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH VUPEN www.vupen.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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