#VU14325 Privilege escalation in CouchDB - CVE-2018-8007
Published: August 13, 2018
Vulnerability identifier: #VU14325
Vulnerability risk: High
CVSSv4.0: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:H/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:N/SC:H/SI:H/SA:H/E:U/U:Amber
CVE-ID: CVE-2018-8007
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerable software:
CouchDB
CouchDB
Software vendor:
Apache Foundation
Apache Foundation
Description
The vulnerability allows a remote administrative attacker to gain elevated privileges on the target system.
The vulnerability exists due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API. A remote attacker can bypass the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API and execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Successful exploitation of the vulnerability may result in system compromise.
Remediation
Update to version 1.7.2 or 2.1.2.