MEDIUM SEVERITY

CVE-2012-5650

Couchdb vulnerability

CVSS
4.3
EPSS
3.8%
EPSS pct
89th
Exploited
No known
Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Futon UI in Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to the browser-based test suite.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Couchdb
CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
Weakness type (CWE)
  • CWE-79 — Cross-Site Scripting (XSS)
Published
2014-03-18

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, medium attack complexity, requiring no authentication. Successful exploitation leads to partial impact to integrity.

Its EPSS score of 3.8% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 89% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2012-5650

  • Confirm whether Apache Couchdb is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2012-5650.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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