CVE-2018-17188

6 documents5 sources
Severity
7.2HIGH
EPSS
1.4%
top 19.69%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Timeline
PublishedJan 2
Latest updateMay 13

Description

Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0, CouchDB allowed for runtime-configuration of key components of the database. In some cases, this lead to vulnerabilities where CouchDB admin users could access the underlying operating system as the CouchDB user. Together with other vulnerabilities, it allowed full system entry for unauthenticated users. Rather than waiting for new vulnerabilities to be discovered, and fixing them as they come up, the CouchDB development team decided to make changes to avoid this

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

🔴Vulnerability Details

3
GHSA
GHSA-6c69-f4qc-5997: Prior to CouchDB version 22022-05-13
CVEList
CVE-2018-17188: Prior to CouchDB version 22019-01-02
OSV
CVE-2018-17188: Prior to CouchDB version 22019-01-02

💬Community

2
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17188 couchdb: Remote Privilege Escalations2018-12-18
Bugzilla
CVE-2018-17188 couchdb: Remote Privilege Escalations [fedora-all]2018-12-18
CVE-2018-17188 (HIGH CVSS 7.2) | Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0 | cvebase.io