CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8742
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2018-02-12
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.
Affected configurations
• apache couchdb 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3E Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94766 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3E Vendor Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94766 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/ Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry