CVE-2021-38295

Published Oct 14, 2021

Last updated a year ago

Overview

Description
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. via the CouchDB admin interface Fauxton, any JavaScript code embedded in that HTML attachment will be executed within the security context of that admin. A similar route is available with the already deprecated _show and _list functionality. This privilege escalation vulnerability allows an attacker to add or remove data in any database or make configuration changes. This issue affected Apache CouchDB prior to 3.1.2
Source
security@apache.org
NVD status
Analyzed

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Primary
Base score
7.3
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
1.3
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
HIGH

CVSS 2.0

Type
Primary
Base score
6
Impact score
6.4
Exploitability score
6.8
Vector string
AV:N/AC:M/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Weaknesses

nvd@nist.gov
CWE-79

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

Configurations