MEDIUM
mercurial: missing allowpull permission check in hgweb
Published Sep 27, 2008
5.0
MEDIUMCVSS 2.0
EPSS 2.70%
Description
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
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
5.0 MEDIUM NVD
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication None
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact None
Availability Impact None
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
2.70% 0.02695
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 1, 2026.
EPSS probability 0.02695
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (9 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 1, 2026 | 2.70% (0.02695) | 85.38th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 2.70% (0.02695) | 83.90th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 0.76% (0.00756) | 71.54th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 12, 2024 | 0.55% (0.00547) | 78.20th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Feb 8, 2024 | 0.51% (0.00506) | 75.80th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 0.51% (0.00506) | 72.84th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 80.77th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Apr 1, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 78.91th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 2.17% (0.02172) | 57.73th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
Weaknesses (1)
References (14)
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
- http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
- http://secunia.com/advisories/32182 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
- http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN
- https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4297 Vendor Advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464631 Issue Tracking
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2008-4297
- https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2008-4297
Change history (0)
No recorded changes yet.
Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Sep 27, 2008
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Sep 26, 2008
Link CVE-2008-4297
CISA Vulnrichment
Updated n/a