Privilege escalation in CouchDB - CVE-2018-8007
Published: August 13, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14325
CSH Severity: High
CVSS v4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8007
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vendor: Apache Foundation
Affected software:
CouchDB
CouchDB
Detailed vulnerability description
The vulnerability allows a remote administrative attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API. A remote attacker can bypass the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
How to mitigate CVE-2018-8007
Update to version 1.7.2 or 2.1.2.