Bug 1516980 (CVE-2017-12636)

Summary:	CVE-2017-12636 couchdb: OS Command injection as couchdb user via remote configuration options
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Pedro Sampaio <psampaio>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	lemenkov
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2017-11-23 18:50:09 UTC

CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user.

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https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67@%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E

Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2017-11-23 18:51:16 UTC

Created couchdb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1516981]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-08 03:31:59 UTC

This CVE Bugzilla entry is for community support informational purposes only as it does not affect a package in a commercially supported Red Hat product. Refer to the dependent bugs for status of those individual community products.