CVE-2021-38295: Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CouchDB
Vendor fix available · Affected: Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB · Exploitation: possible (1 to 10%)
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DescriptionCVE.org
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
Affected products2
From the CVE record. A product or version that is not listed is unknown, not unaffected.
- Apache Software Foundation · Apache CouchDBfrom Apache CouchDB before 3.1.2
- Apache Software Foundation · IBM Cloudantfrom IBM Cloudant before 8201
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- Exploitation
- Possible (1 to 10%). EPSS between 1% and 10%.
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Public check
- No public nuclei template
- Weakness
- Cross-site Scripting
- Published
- October 2021
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