CVE-2026-86471 (GCVE-0-2026-86471)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 15:38
Modified
2026-10-21 03:56
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Summary
An unvalidated runtime configuration value in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms allows a CouchDB server admin to run arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB operating system user.
Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.3, which fixes this issue.
References
| URL | Tags | |
|---|---|---|
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apache Software Foundation | Apache CouchDB |
Version: 0 ≤ |
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