CVE-2020-1955 (GCVE-0-2020-1955)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-20 13:53 – Updated: 2024-08-04 06:54
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server called `require_valid_user_except_for_up`. It was meant as an extension to the long standing setting `require_valid_user`, which in turn requires that any and all requests to CouchDB will have to be made with valid credentials, effectively forbidding any anonymous requests. The new `require_valid_user_except_for_up` is an off-by-default setting that was meant to allow requiring valid credentials for all endpoints except for the `/_up` endpoint. However, the implementation of this made an error that lead to not enforcing credentials on any endpoint, when enabled. CouchDB versions 3.0.1[1] and 3.1.0[2] fix this issue.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CWE
- Remote Privilege Escalation
Assigner
References
1 reference
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| https://docs.couchdb.org/en/master/cve/2020-1955.html | x_refsource_MISC |
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| n/a | Apache CouchDB |
Affected:
Apache CouchDB 3.0.0
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