CVE-2021-38295

Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Oct 14, 2021
Updated
Aug 4, 2024
Reserved
Aug 9, 2021

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Description

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

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Apache CouchDBApache Software Foundation
  • Apache CouchDB to before 3.1.2Affected
IBM CloudantApache Software Foundation
  • IBM Cloudant to before 8201Affected

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