debian · CVE-2008-4297

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Priority: low Published: Updated: Thu, 18 Jun 2026 01:58:16 GMT

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Tracker summary

CVE-2008-4297 low priority: Debian including 1 source packages (mercurial), 5 status rows across 5 suites (bookworm, bullseye, forky, sid, trixie): resolved 5.

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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