CVE-2018-11769
CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of…
- 7.2HighCVSS base score
- 8.4%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 5.0% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user under which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007.
Timeline
ID reserved
By apache
- 2 months later
· 2 months later
Published
- 6 years later
· 6 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.4% · top 5.0% of all CVEs (10 Nov 2026)
The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.2.
Affected products
Apache Software Foundation · Apache CouchDB
- affected Apache Tomcat 1.x and =2.1.2
References
6
- 105046 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- GLSA-201812-06 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/1052ad7a1b32b9756df4f7860f5cb5a96b739f444117325a19a4bf75%40%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-83f513fd7e (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- FEDORA-2020-73bd8167a0 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2018-3779 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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