CVE-2018-17188

7.2HIGH

Key Information:

Vendor
Apache
Status
Apache Couchdb
Vendor
CVE Published:
2 January 2019

Summary

Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0, CouchDB allowed for runtime-configuration of key components of the database. In some cases, this lead to vulnerabilities where CouchDB admin users could access the underlying operating system as the CouchDB user. Together with other vulnerabilities, it allowed full system entry for unauthenticated users. Rather than waiting for new vulnerabilities to be discovered, and fixing them as they come up, the CouchDB development team decided to make changes to avoid this entire class of vulnerabilities.

Affected Version(s)

Apache CouchDB All

References

https://blog.couchdb.org/2018/12/17/cve-2018-17188/
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https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale...
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https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-ann...
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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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