Vulnerabilities > CVE-2018-17188 - Unspecified vulnerability in Apache Couchdb
Attack vector
NETWORK Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
HIGH Confidentiality impact
HIGH Integrity impact
HIGH Availability impact
HIGH Summary
Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0, CouchDB allowed for runtime-configuration of key components of the database. In some cases, this lead to vulnerabilities where CouchDB admin users could access the underlying operating system as the CouchDB user. Together with other vulnerabilities, it allowed full system entry for unauthenticated users. Rather than waiting for new vulnerabilities to be discovered, and fixing them as they come up, the CouchDB development team decided to make changes to avoid this entire class of vulnerabilities.
Vulnerable Configurations
Nessus
NASL family Fedora Local Security Checks NASL id FEDORA_2020-83F513FD7E.NASL description CouchDB 3.0.0 Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website. Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues. last seen 2020-03-19 modified 2020-03-16 plugin id 134580 published 2020-03-16 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/134580 title Fedora 31 : couchdb (2020-83f513fd7e) NASL family FreeBSD Local Security Checks NASL id FREEBSD_PKG_1999A215FC6B11E88A95AC1F6B67E138.NASL description Apache CouchDB PMC reports : Database Administrator could achieve privilege escalation to the account that CouchDB runs under, by abusing insufficient validation in the HTTP API, escaping security controls implemented in previous releases. last seen 2020-03-28 modified 2018-12-21 plugin id 119821 published 2018-12-21 reporter This script is Copyright (C) 2018-2020 and is owned by Tenable, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof. source https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/119821 title FreeBSD : couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation (1999a215-fc6b-11e8-8a95-ac1f6b67e138)
References
- https://blog.couchdb.org/2018/12/17/cve-2018-17188/
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/X3JOUCX7LHDV4YWZDQNXT5NTKKRANZQW/
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/S5FPHVVU5KMRFKQTJPAM3TBGC7LKCWQS/