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sslutil: require TLS 1.1+ when supported Currently, Mercurial will use TLS 1.0 or newer when connecting to remote servers, selecting the highest TLS version supported by both peers. On older Pythons, only TLS 1.0 is available. On newer Pythons, TLS 1.1 and 1.2 should be available. Security professionals recommend avoiding TLS 1.0 if possible. PCI DSS 3.1 "strongly encourages" the use of TLS 1.2. Known attacks like BEAST and POODLE exist against TLS 1.0 (although mitigations are available and properly configured servers aren't vulnerable). I asked Eric Rescorla - Mozilla's resident crypto expert - whether Mercurial should drop support for TLS 1.0. His response was "if you can get away with it." Essentially, a number of servers on the Internet don't support TLS 1.1+. This is why web browsers continue to support TLS 1.0 despite desires from security experts. This patch changes Mercurial's default behavior on modern Python versions to require TLS 1.1+, thus avoiding known security issues with TLS 1.0 and making Mercurial more secure by default. Rather than drop TLS 1.0 support wholesale, we still allow TLS 1.0 to be used if configured. This is a compromise solution - ideally we'd disallow TLS 1.0. However, since we're not sure how many Mercurial servers don't support TLS 1.1+ and we're not sure how much user inconvenience this change will bring, I think it is prudent to ship an escape hatch that still allows usage of TLS 1.0. In the default case our users get better security. In the worst case, they are no worse off than before this patch. This patch has no effect when running on Python versions that don't support TLS 1.1+. As the added test shows, connecting to a server that doesn't support TLS 1.1+ will display a warning message with a link to our wiki, where we can guide people to configure their client to allow less secure connections.

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test-pull-http.t
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#require killdaemons
$ hg init test
$ cd test
$ echo a > a
$ hg ci -Ama
adding a
$ cd ..
$ hg clone test test2
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd test2
$ echo a >> a
$ hg ci -mb
Cloning with a password in the URL should not save the password in .hg/hgrc:
$ hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E errors.log
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
$ hg clone http://foo:xyzzy@localhost:$HGPORT/ test3
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 2 changesets with 2 changes to 1 files
updating to branch default
1 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cat test3/.hg/hgrc
# example repository config (see "hg help config" for more info)
[paths]
default = http://foo@localhost:$HGPORT/
# path aliases to other clones of this repo in URLs or filesystem paths
# (see "hg help config.paths" for more info)
#
# default-push = ssh://jdoe@example.net/hg/jdoes-fork
# my-fork = ssh://jdoe@example.net/hg/jdoes-fork
# my-clone = /home/jdoe/jdoes-clone
[ui]
# name and email (local to this repository, optional), e.g.
# username = Jane Doe <jdoe@example.com>
$ killdaemons.py
expect error, cloning not allowed
$ echo '[web]' > .hg/hgrc
$ echo 'allowpull = false' >> .hg/hgrc
$ hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E errors.log
$ cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
$ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT/ test4 --config experimental.bundle2-exp=True
requesting all changes
abort: authorization failed
[255]
$ hg clone http://localhost:$HGPORT/ test4 --config experimental.bundle2-exp=False
abort: authorization failed
[255]
$ killdaemons.py
serve errors
$ cat errors.log
$ req() {
> hg serve -p $HGPORT -d --pid-file=hg.pid -E errors.log
> cat hg.pid >> $DAEMON_PIDS
> hg --cwd ../test pull http://localhost:$HGPORT/
> killdaemons.py hg.pid
> echo % serve errors
> cat errors.log
> }
expect error, pulling not allowed
$ req
pulling from http://localhost:$HGPORT/
searching for changes
abort: authorization failed
% serve errors
$ cd ..