CVEvulnerability
CVE-2017-12636
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-11-14
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 9.0 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-78
Description
CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet.
Affected configurations
• apache couchdb (< 1.7.0)
• apache couchdb 2.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-78 Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command weakness
References
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67%40%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00026.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us support.hpe.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44913/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45019/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67%40%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E lists.apache.org
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00026.html lists.debian.org
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-16 Third Party Advisory
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us support.hpe.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44913/ www.exploit-db.com
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45019/ www.exploit-db.com