CVE-2022-42951

State: Published
Severity: 8.1 High
Published: Feb 6, 2023
Updated: Mar 26, 2025
Reserved: Oct 15, 2022

Description

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server 6.5.x and 6.6.x before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2. During the start-up of a Couchbase Server node, there is a small window of time (before the cluster management authentication has started) where an attacker can connect to the cluster manager using default credentials.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	8.1 High	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H	CISA-ADP

Weaknesses

CWE-287 Improper Authentication

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security
https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/

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