CVE-2021-38295 is a vulnerability in Apache Couchdb
Published on October 14, 2021
Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments
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
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Affected Versions
Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB:- Version Apache CouchDB and below 3.1.2 is affected.
- Version IBM Cloudant and below 8201 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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