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.

Published: 2008-09-27 Last update: 2026-04-23 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
View at NVD, CVE.org, EUVD

CVE-2008-4297 is rated Moderate Risk (44.5/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 0.76%). Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

Risk is dynamic; we continuously reassess and refresh what is shown on this page as upstream context changes.

Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2008-4297

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2025-03-30 1.08% 0.76% -0.32%
2 2025-03-29 0.76% 1.08% +0.32%
3 2025-03-17 — 0.76% —

Full EPSS history (6 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2008-4297

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:P)
Partial confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2008-4297

OS Trackers for CVE-2008-4297

vendor priority summary link
debian low CVE-2008-4297 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mercurial), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5. https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2008-4297
redhat medium — https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2008-4297
ubuntu negligible CVE-2008-4297 negligible priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (mercurial), 5 status rows across 5 suites (dapper, feisty, gutsy, hardy, upstream): ignored 4, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2008-4297

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2008-4297

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
mercurial mercurial <= 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:mercurial:mercurial:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2008-4297

cvelogic Threat Intelligence