Cross-site scripting in CouchDB - CVE-2010-3854

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Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU45397

Cross-site scripting in CouchDB - CVE-2010-3854

Published: February 2, 2011 / Updated: October 9, 2021


Vulnerability identifier: #VU45397
CSH Severity: Low
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2010-3854
CWE-ID: CWE-79
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vulnerability details

Vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform Cross-site scripting attacks.

An input validation error exists in the web administration interface (aka Futon) in Apache CouchDB 0.8.0 through 1.0.1 when processing unspecified vectors. A remote attacker can trick the victim to follow a specially crafted link and execute arbitrary HTML and script code in victim's browser in security context of vulnerable website.

Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to steal potentially sensitive information, change appearance of the web page, perform phishing and drive-by-download attacks.


Affected software

CouchDB
Fedora
couchdb
erlang-ibrowse

How to mitigate CVE-2010-3854

Install update from vendor's website.

couchdb - addressed in versions 1.0.2-1.el6, 1.0.2-4.el6, 1.0.2-8.el5
erlang-ibrowse - update to 2.2.0-3.el5

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