CVE-2008-4297
mediumpriority · track · 21EPSS 0.027 · 86 %ileEUUSgrimoire priorityP3 · Track
Exploitable?
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no known exploitation
Likely / severe?
2.70% (86th) EPSS
CVSS 5 · medium
Who says so?
2 sources
enisa_euvd · nvd
EPSS · scored 2026-10-27
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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cvss
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5.0
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base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode
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weaknesses
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affected products (2)
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also known as (2)
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sources
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published 2008-09-27modified 2026-06-16
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references (20)
External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2enisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32182enisa_euvd
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276enisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threadedenisa_euvd
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223enisa_euvd
- http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02benisa_euvd
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604enisa_euvd
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