critical
CVE-2022-24706
Apache CouchDB 3.2.1 and earlier: the installer leaves the Erlang distribution cookie at the default 'monster', so anyone who can reach the cluster ports (4369 epmd, 9100) executes OS commands as the couchdb user
- Severity
- critical
- Affected product
- CouchDB
- Affected versions
- CouchDB ≤ 3.2.1
- Fixed in
- CouchDB 3.2.2
- Detection basis
- Component version range
- Shipped rule
- CouchDB: Apache CouchDB 3.2.1 and earlier: the installer leaves the Erlang distribution cookie at the default 'monster', so anyone who can reach the cluster ports (4369 epmd, 9100) executes OS commands as the couchdb user
- 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.
References
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