CVE-2016-8742
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2018-02-12 17:00
Modified
2024-09-17 00:26
Severity ?
Summary
The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.
References
security@apache.orghttp://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3EVendor Advisory
security@apache.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94766Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
security@apache.orghttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3EVendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94766Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
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