CVEvulnerability

CVE-2021-42763

7.5 HIGH Published 2021-11-02 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2021-11-02
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-312

Description

Couchbase Server before 6.6.3 and 7.x before 7.0.2 stores Sensitive Information in Cleartext. The issue occurs when the cluster manager forwards a HTTP request from the pluggable UI (query workbench etc) to the specific service. In the backtrace, the Basic Auth Header included in the HTTP request, has the "@" user credentials of the node processing the UI request.

Affected configurations

• couchbase couchbase server (< 4.6.0) • couchbase couchbase server (>= 5.0.0 < 6.1.0) • couchbase couchbase server (>= 6.5.0 <= 6.6.2) • couchbase couchbase server 7.0.0 • couchbase couchbase server 7.0.1

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-312 Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information weakness

References