Vulnerability CVE-2017-12636
Published: 2017-11-14   Modified: 2017-11-15

Description:
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 CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Apache CouchDB < 2.1.0 Remote Code Execution
Cody Zacharias
20.06.2018

Type:

CWE-78

 (Improper Neutralization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') )

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

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9/10
10/10
8/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
Single time
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Apache -> Couchdb 

 References:
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67@%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00026.html
https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-16
https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44913/
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45019/
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