CVE-2018-11769

CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S)

published August 8, 2018

CVSS
—
EPSS
8%
Percentile
95.0
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 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 under which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.08426 · 95.0th percentile
Published
2018-08-08T15:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 08 AUG 15:00Z
    CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S)
    cvelistv5