Bug 1601002 (CVE-2018-8007) - CVE-2018-8007 couchdb: Administrative Privilege Escalation
Summary: CVE-2018-8007 couchdb: Administrative Privilege Escalation
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: CVE-2018-8007
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Depends On: 1601003
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2018-07-13 14:40 UTC by Pedro Sampaio
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:44 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2019-06-10 10:32:35 UTC
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Description Pedro Sampaio 2018-07-13 14:40:25 UTC 
CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system’s user that CouchDB runs under, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API.

References:

https://blog.couchdb.org/2018/07/10/cve-2018-8007/
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-announce/201807.mbox/%3C1699016538.6219.1531246785603.JavaMail.Joan%40RITA%3E
http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-announce/201807.mbox/%3C1439409216.6221.1531246856676.JavaMail.Joan@RITA%3E
Comment 1 Pedro Sampaio 2018-07-13 14:41:28 UTC 
Created couchdb tracking bugs for this issue:

Affects: fedora-all [bug 1601003]
Comment 2 Product Security DevOps Team 2019-06-10 10:32:35 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.
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