CVE-2008-4297

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CVE-2008-4297

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CVE-2008-4297 at MITRE

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.

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SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having moderate severity.

CVSS v2 Scores

	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	5
Vector	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

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 427243 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

• SUSE-SR:2008:020, published Tue, 07 Oct 2008 07:00:00 +0000

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SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Tue Jul 9 18:29:14 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:28:12 2023