CVE-2018-11769

7.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Couchdb
Vendor
CVE Published:
8 August 2018

Summary

CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user under which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007.

Affected Version(s)

Apache CouchDB Apache Tomcat 1.x and =2.1.2

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105046
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201812-06
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOO
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1052ad7a1b32b9756df4...
x_refsource_MISC

CVSS V3.1

Score:
7.2
Severity:
HIGH
Confidentiality:
High
Integrity:
High
Availability:
High
Attack Vector:
Network
Attack Complexity:
Low
Privileges Required:
High
User Interaction:
None
Scope:
Unchanged

Timeline

  • Vulnerability published

  • Vulnerability Reserved

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