Vulnerability Report

CVE-2008-4297

Title: Mercurial Path Traversal / LFI

Path Traversal / LFI

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2008-4297.

CWE Category CWE-264

Published Date Sep 27, 2008

Modified Date Apr 09, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 5.0 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.76%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2008-4297: 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.

Impacted Vendors

mercurial 1

jenkins 1

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/32182 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2008-10/msg00004.html http://marc.info/?l=oss-security&m=122169840003798&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/32182 http://wiki.rpath.com/wiki/Advisories:rPSA-2008-0276 http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/496488/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31223 http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/index.cgi/WhatsNew#head-905b8adb3420a77d92617e06590055bd8952e02b http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2008/2604 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/45229 https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-2753

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2008-4297 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

April 09, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 27, 2008 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


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

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.