OS Command Injection The advisory has been revoked - it doesn't affect any version of package couchdb (opens in a new tab)
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Test your applications- Snyk IDSNYK-UBUNTU1604-COUCHDB-326753
- published14 Nov 2017
- disclosed14 Nov 2017
Introduced: 14 Nov 2017
CVE-2017-12636 (opens in a new tab)Amendment
The Ubuntu security team deemed this advisory irrelevant for Ubuntu:16.04.
NVD Description
Note: Versions mentioned in the description apply only to the upstream couchdb package and not the couchdb package as distributed by Ubuntu.
CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet.
References
- http://people.ubuntu.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/CVE-2017-12636
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67@%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E
- https://support.hpe.com/hpsc/doc/public/display?docLocale=en_US&docId=emr_na-hpesbmu03935en_us
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00026.html
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44913/
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/45019/
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201711-16
- https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/6c405bf3f8358e6314076be9f48c89a2e0ddf00539906291ebdf0c67%40%3Cdev.couchdb.apache.org%3E
- https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/44913