Apache CouchDB vulnerabilities

20 CVEs affecting Apache CouchDB, 1 known to be exploited (CISA KEV), with EPSS scores. Latest: CVE-2023-45725, published 2023-12-13.

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CVE-2022-24706: Apache CouchDB Insecure Default Initialization of Resource Vulnerability, published 2022-04-26. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. Actively exploited: in CISA KEV since 2022-08-25. EPSS: 92.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. In Apache CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, an attacker can access an improperly secured default installation without authenticating and gain admin privileges. The CouchDB documentation has always made…
CVE-2017-12635, published 2017-11-14. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 99.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Due to differences in the Erlang-based JSON parser and JavaScript-based JSON parser, it is possible in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to submit _users documents with duplicate keys…
CVE-2017-12636, published 2017-11-14. High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 90.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2014-2668, published 2014-03-28. Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 22.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via the count parameter to /_uuids.
CVE-2018-8007, published 2018-07-11. High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 12.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for…
CVE-2012-5641, published 2014-03-18. Medium severity, CVSS 5.0. EPSS: 8.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Directory traversal vulnerability in the partition2 function in mochiweb_util.erl in MochiWeb before 2.4.0, as used in Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1, allows…
CVE-2018-11769, published 2018-08-08. High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 8.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is…
CVE-2012-5649, published 2014-05-23. Medium severity, CVSS 6.8. EPSS: 6.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a JSONP callback, related to Adobe Flash.
CVE-2010-3854, published 2011-02-02. Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Multiple cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities in the web administration interface (aka Futon) in Apache CouchDB 0.8.0 through 1.0.1 allow remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML…
CVE-2010-0009, published 2010-04-05. Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 5.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Apache CouchDB 0.8.0 through 0.10.1 allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information by measuring the completion time of operations that verify (1) hashes or (2) passwords.

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CVE-2023-45725, published 2023-12-13. Medium severity, CVSS 5.7. EPSS: 1.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose authorization or session cookie headers of the user who accesses the document. These design document functions are: * …
CVE-2023-26268, published 2023-05-02. Medium severity, CVSS 5.3. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. Design documents with matching document IDs, from databases on the same cluster, may share a mutable Javascript environment when using these design document functions: * validate_doc_update * …
CVE-2021-38295, published 2021-10-14. High severity, CVSS 7.3. EPSS: 2.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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.…
CVE-2020-1955, published 2020-05-20. Critical severity, CVSS 9.8. EPSS: 1.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2018-17188, published 2019-01-02. High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 3.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…
CVE-2018-14889, published 2018-09-21. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. CouchDB in Vectra Networks Cognito Brain and Sensor before 4.3 contains a local code execution vulnerability.
CVE-2016-8742, published 2018-02-12. High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days. 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…