Vulnerability CVE-2012-5641
Published: 2014-03-18

Description:
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 remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the default URI.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
Med.
Apache CouchDB Information disclosure (Windows)
Jan Lehnardt
14.01.2013

Type:

CWE-22

 (Improper Limitation of a Pathname to a Restricted Directory ('Path Traversal'))

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
5/10
2.9/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
None
None
Affected software
Mochiweb project -> Mochiweb 
Apache -> Couchdb 

 References:
https://github.com/melkote/mochiweb/commit/ac2bf
https://github.com/mochi/mochiweb/issues/92
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/81240
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57313
http://secunia.com/advisories/51765
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/81
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