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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:51

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments

Details

In Apache CouchDB, a malicious user with permission to create documents in a database is able to attach a HTML attachment to a document. If a CouchDB admin opens that attachment in a browser, e.g. via the CouchDB admin interface Fauxton, any JavaScript code embedded in that HTML attachment will be executed within the security context of that admin. A similar route is available with the already deprecated _show and _list functionality. This privilege escalation vulnerability allows an attacker to add or remove data in any database or make configuration changes. This issue affected Apache CouchDB prior to 3.1.2

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  "modified": "2025-05-20T10:02:07.006Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:51:34.463Z",
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}

CVE-2021-38295 (GCVE-0-2021-38295)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2021-10-14 19:55 – Updated: 2024-08-04 01:37

Title

Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments

Summary

Severity ?

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Privilege escalation

Assigner

apache

References

URL

Tags

https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2021-38295.html

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

Vendor

Product

Version

Apache Software Foundation

Apache CouchDB

Affected: Apache CouchDB , < 3.1.2 (custom)

Apache Software Foundation

IBM Cloudant

Affected: IBM Cloudant , < 8201 (custom)

Credits

This issue was identified by Cory Sabol of Secure Ideas.

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