THREATPORT/VULNERABILITY/CVE-2018-17188
HIGH SEVERITY

CVE-2018-17188

Couchdb vulnerability

CVSS
7.2
EPSS
3.2%
EPSS pct
87th
Exploited
No known
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.
Affected vendor
Apache
Affected product
Couchdb
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Published
2019-01-02

Risk analysis

Based on its CVSS vector, this vulnerability is exploitable over the network, low attack complexity, requiring high privileges, no user interaction. Successful exploitation leads to high impact to confidentiality, high impact to integrity, high impact to availability.

Its EPSS score of 3.2% reflects a lower probability of exploitation activity in the wild over the next 30 days, placing it above 87% of all scored CVEs.

Check your external exposure to CVE-2018-17188

  • Confirm whether Apache Couchdb is running on any internet-facing host or subdomain.
  • Match discovered service fingerprints against the version affected by CVE-2018-17188.
  • Prioritise remediation if the asset is public, business-critical, or near authentication/payment flows.

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