CVEvulnerability

CVE-2018-8007

7.2 HIGH Published 2018-07-11 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-07-11
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-20

Description

Apache CouchDB administrative users 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 that CouchDB runs under, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows an existing CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing already disclosed CVE-2017-12636. Mitigation: All users should upgrade to CouchDB releases 1.7.2 or 2.1.2.

Affected configurations

• apache couchdb (<= 1.7.1) • apache couchdb (>= 2.0.0 <= 2.1.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References