CVE-2017-12636
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-14 20:00
Modified
2024-09-16 18:48
Severity ?
EPSS score ?
3.31% (0.91346)
Summary
CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet.
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB Version: 1.2.0 to 1.6.1
Version: 2.0.0 to 2.1.0
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