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
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
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Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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Apache CouchDBApache Software Foundation |
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IBM CloudantApache Software Foundation |
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