CVE-2026-90800 (GCVE-0-2026-90800)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-10-20 15:40
Modified
2026-10-20 18:10
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VLAI Severity ?
EPSS score ?
Summary
Missing authorisation checks in chttpd in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms allows any request to read the full contents of a prefixed _user or _replicator database via an unauthorised API endpoint.
The use of prefixed system databases is very rare.
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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