CVE-2016-8742
See a problem?- Source
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8742
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8742.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8742
- Published
- 2018-02-12T17:29:00Z
- Modified
- 2024-09-03T01:28:58.331389Z
- Severity
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- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
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- Details
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The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.
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