Couchdb
CVE-2018-14889
HIGH
Vulnerability Assessment
| Weakness |
CWE
OWASP Top 10:2025
A05:2025 - Injection
ASVS 5.0
V2 - Validation and Business Logic Input validation, allowlisting
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| Impact | CVSS score of 7.8 (HIGH). Attack characteristics: local attack vector, low complexity, low privileges required, no user interaction not required. |
| Exploit ScenarioDerived | Successful exploitation could compromise the high-severity affected system. |
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CouchDB in Vectra Networks Cognito Brain and Sensor before 4.3 contains a local code execution vulnerability. Rated high severity (CVSS 7.8), this vulnerability is low attack complexity. No vendor patch available.
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No vendor patch is available at time of analysis. Monitor vendor advisories for updates. Apply vendor patches when available. Implement network segmentation and monitoring as interim mitigations.
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This vulnerability is classified under CWE-20. CouchDB in Vectra Networks Cognito Brain and Sensor before 4.3 contains a local code execution vulnerability. Affected products include: Apache Couchdb. Version information: before 4.3.
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CVSS VectorNVD
DescriptionNVD
CouchDB in Vectra Networks Cognito Brain and Sensor before 4.3 contains a local code execution vulnerability.
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Attack Technique
Remote Code Execution represents the critical moment when an attacker successfully runs arbitrary code on a target system without physical access.
Affected Products (CPE)NVD
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CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this vulnera
Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via t
In Apache CouchDB prior to 3.2.2, an attacker can access an improperly secured default installation without authenticati
Apache CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2), this
CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server
Directory traversal vulnerability in the partition2 function in mochiweb_util.erl in MochiWeb before 2.4.0, as used in A
In Apache CouchDB, a malicious user with permission to create documents in a database is able to attach a HTML attachmen
CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Rated high severity (CVSS 7.2),
Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary cod
Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose authorization or session cookie headers of
Design documents with matching document IDs, from databases on the same cluster, may share a mutable Javascript environm
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