CVE-2026-90799 (GCVE-0-2026-90799)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 15:40
Modified
2026-10-20 18:10
Summary
Unsafe binary deserialisation in chttpd in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service via memory exhaustion. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.3, which fixes this issue.
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