Improper authorization control for web services In mercurial

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.

Mitigation

Update Impact

Minimal update. May introduce new vulnerabilities or breaking changes.

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