Bug 1660480 (CVE-2018-17188)

Summary:	CVE-2018-17188 couchdb: Remote Privilege Escalations
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Andrej Nemec <anemec>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
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Version:	unspecified	CC:	lemenkov
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Description Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 12:42:51 UTC

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.

References:

https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2018/q4/255

Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2018-12-18 12:42:59 UTC

Created couchdb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1660481]

Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:44:11 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.