CVE-2016-8742

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Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=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
2018-02-12T17:29:00.277Z
Modified
2026-04-10T03:53:54.228972Z
Severity
  • 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
[none]
Details

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.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/apache/couchdb

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/apache/couchdb
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Last affected
cb02b9b812174609403d67f60c314959388ba06c
Database specific 
{
    "versions": [
        {
            "introduced": "0"
        },
        {
            "last_affected": "2.0.0"
        }
    ]
}

Affected versions

2.*
2.0.0
2.0.0-RC1
2.0.0-RC3
2.0.0-RC4
Other
fauxton

Database specific

source 
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8742.json"