CVE-2018-11769

6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.2HIGH
EPSS
6.1%
top 9.21%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
2
Apache CouchdbApache Software Foundation Apache Couchdb
Timeline
PublishedAug 8
Latest updateMay 13

Description

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 use…

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HExploitability: 1.2 | Impact: 5.9

Affected Packages2 packages

â–¶NVDapache/couchdb< 2.2.0
â–¶CVEListV5apache_software_foundation/apache_couchdbApache Tomcat 1.x and =2.1.2

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-33mm-q6vp-mvmv: CouchDB administrative users before 2↗2022-05-13
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CVEList
CVE-2018-11769: CouchDB administrative users before 2↗2018-08-08
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OSV
CVE-2018-11769: CouchDB administrative users before 2↗2018-08-08
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💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-11769 couchdb: Possible privilege escalation by couchdb administrator to system couchdb user [fedora-all]↗2018-12-18
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Bugzilla
CVE-2018-11769 couchdb: Possible privilege escalation by couchdb administrator to system couchdb user↗2018-12-18
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