high
CVE-2017-12636
Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0: a server configuration option can be pointed at an arbitrary binary which CouchDB then launches, so an administrator account becomes command execution as the couchdb user - chained with CVE-2017-12635 the whole thing is unauthenticated
- Severity
- high
- 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: a server configuration option can be pointed at an arbitrary binary which CouchDB then launches, so an administrator account becomes command execution as the couchdb user - chained with CVE-2017-12635 the whole thing is unauthenticated
CouchDB: Apache CouchDB 2.x before 2.1.1: a server configuration option can be pointed at an arbitrary binary which CouchDB then launches, so an administrator account becomes command execution as the couchdb user - chained with CVE-2017-12635 the whole thing is unauthenticated - 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.
References
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