critical
CVE-2017-12635
Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0: the Erlang and JavaScript JSON parsers disagree about duplicate keys, so an anonymous _users document can smuggle itself the _admin role - privilege escalation to database administrator
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- CouchDB
- Affected versions
- CouchDB < 1.7.0
- Affected versions
- CouchDB ≥ 2.0.0, < 2.1.1
- Fixed in
- CouchDB 1.7.0
- Fixed in
- CouchDB 2.1.1
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- CouchDB: Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0: the Erlang and JavaScript JSON parsers disagree about duplicate keys, so an anonymous _users document can smuggle itself the _admin role - privilege escalation to database administrator
CouchDB: Apache CouchDB 2.x before 2.1.1: the Erlang and JavaScript JSON parsers disagree about duplicate keys, so an anonymous _users document can smuggle itself the _admin role - privilege escalation to database administrator - Added to NewScan
- 2026-10-15
- Detected by
- NewScan — free, self-hosted
How NewScan reports it
COMPONENT VERSION RANGE
NewScan fingerprints CouchDB from its response and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
COMPONENT VERSION RANGE
NewScan fingerprints CouchDB from its response and reports this CVE when the detected version falls inside the affected range below.
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