UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11769

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Source
https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-11769
Import Source
https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11769.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11769
Upstream
Published
2018-08-08T15:29:00Z
Modified
2025-10-24T04:47:03Z
Severity
  • 7.2 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
  • Ubuntu - medium
Summary
[none]
Details

CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user under which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007.

References

Affected packages

Ubuntu:16.04:LTS / couchdb

Package

Name
couchdb
Purl
pkg:deb/ubuntu/couchdb@1.6.0-0ubuntu7?arch=source&distro=xenial

Affected ranges

Type
ECOSYSTEM
Events
Introduced
0Unknown introduced version / All previous versions are affected

Affected versions

1.*
1.6.0-0ubuntu7

Ecosystem specific 

{
    "binaries": [
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.0-0ubuntu7",
            "binary_name": "couchdb"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.0-0ubuntu7",
            "binary_name": "couchdb-bin"
        },
        {
            "binary_version": "1.6.0-0ubuntu7",
            "binary_name": "couchdb-common"
        }
    ]
}

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices/blob/main/osv/cve/2018/UBUNTU-CVE-2018-11769.json"