Upstream information

CVE-2018-17188 at MITRE

Description

Prior to CouchDB version 2.3.0, CouchDB allowed for runtime-configuration of key components of the database. In some cases, this lead to vulnerabilities where CouchDB admin users could access the underlying operating system as the CouchDB user. Together with other vulnerabilities, it allowed full system entry for unauthenticated users. Rather than waiting for new vulnerabilities to be discovered, and fixing them as they come up, the CouchDB development team decided to make changes to avoid this entire class of vulnerabilities.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database
Base Score 6.5
Vector AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P
Access Vector Network
Access Complexity Low
Authentication Single
Confidentiality Impact Partial
Integrity Impact Partial
Availability Impact Partial
CVSS v3 Scores
  National Vulnerability Database SUSE
Base Score 7.2 8.5
Vector CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack Vector Network Network
Attack Complexity Low High
Privileges Required High Low
User Interaction None None
Scope Unchanged Changed
Confidentiality Impact High High
Integrity Impact High High
Availability Impact High High
CVSSv3 Version 3 3
SUSE Bugzilla entries: 1104204 [RESOLVED / FIXED], 1119720 [RESOLVED / WONTFIX]

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Status of this issue by product and package

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Product(s) Source package State
Products past their end of life and not receiving proactive updates anymore.
SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 couchdb Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 couchdb Released
SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 couchdb Released

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Wed Jul 11 14:35:02 2018
CVE page last modified: Mon Jan 16 19:10:52 2023