Executive Summary



This Alert is flagged as TOP 25 Common Weakness Enumeration from CWE/SANS. For more information, you can read this.
Summary
Title CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities
Informations
Name GLSA-201711-16 First vendor Publication 2017-11-19
Vendor Gentoo Last vendor Modification 2017-11-19
Severity (Vendor) N/A Revision N/A

Security-Database Scoring CVSS v3

Cvss vector : N/A
Overall CVSS Score NA
Base Score NA Environmental Score NA
impact SubScore NA Temporal Score NA
Exploitabality Sub Score NA
 
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Security-Database Scoring CVSS v2

Cvss vector : (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Cvss Base Score 10 Attack Range Network
Cvss Impact Score 10 Attack Complexity Low
Cvss Expoit Score 10 Authentication None Required
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Detail

Synopsis

Multiple vulnerabilities have been found in CouchDB, the worst of which could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary shell commands.

Background

Apache CouchDB is a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database.

Description

Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CouchDB. Please review the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.

Impact

A remote attacker could execute arbitrary shell commands or escalate privileges.

Workaround

There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution

All CouchDB users should upgrade to the latest version:

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# emerge --sync
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# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=dev-db/couchdb-1.7.1"

References

[ 1 ] CVE-2017-12635
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12635
[ 2 ] CVE-2017-12636
      https://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2017-12636

Availability

This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at the Gentoo Security Website:

 https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-16

Original Source

Url : http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-201711-16.xml

CWE : Common Weakness Enumeration

% Id Name
50 % CWE-269 Improper Privilege Management
50 % CWE-78 Improper Sanitization of Special Elements used in an OS Command ('OS Command Injection') (CWE/SANS Top 25)

CPE : Common Platform Enumeration

TypeDescriptionCount
Application 24

Snort® IPS/IDS

Date Description
2018-05-29 Apache CouchDB remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 46440 - Revision : 1 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2018-02-03 Apache CouchDB remote code execution attempt
RuleID : 45269 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER
2017-12-19 Apache CouchDB remote privilege escalation attempt
RuleID : 44890 - Revision : 3 - Type : SERVER-OTHER

Nessus® Vulnerability Scanner

Date Description
2018-07-12 Name : The remote FreeBSD host is missing a security-related update.
File : freebsd_pkg_1e54d140849311e8a7950028f8d09152.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-22 Name : The remote Debian host is missing a security update.
File : debian_DLA-1252.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2018-01-15 Name : The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.
File : fedora_2017-a20d92573b.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO
2017-11-20 Name : The remote Gentoo host is missing one or more security-related patches.
File : gentoo_GLSA-201711-16.nasl - Type : ACT_GATHER_INFO

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Date Informations
2017-12-04 21:24:47
  • Multiple Updates
2017-11-21 13:24:01
  • Multiple Updates
2017-11-20 00:21:36
  • First insertion