CVE-2021-38295 (GCVE-0-2021-38295)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2021-10-14 19:55
Modified
2024-08-04 01:37
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VLAI Severity ?
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CWE
- Privilege escalation
Summary
In Apache CouchDB, a malicious user with permission to create documents in a database is able to attach a HTML attachment to a document. If a CouchDB admin opens that attachment in a browser, e.g. via the CouchDB admin interface Fauxton, any JavaScript code embedded in that HTML attachment will be executed within the security context of that admin. A similar route is available with the already deprecated _show and _list functionality. This privilege escalation vulnerability allows an attacker to add or remove data in any database or make configuration changes. This issue affected Apache CouchDB prior to 3.1.2
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Impacted products
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Version: Apache CouchDB < 3.1.2 |
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