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CouchDB < 0.11.0 Timing Attack Vulnerability

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5503

Synopsis

The remote host is affected by an information disclosure vulnerability.

Description

The remote host is running CouchDB, a document-oriented database. The installed version of CouchDB is earlier than 0.11.0. Such versions are potentially affected by an information disclosure vulnerability via a timing attack caused by a break-on-equality string comparison when verifying hashes or passwords.

Solution

Upgrade to CouchDB 0.11.0 or later.

See Also

http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/510427/100/0/threaded

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5503

Family: Database

Published: 4/6/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 45435

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.2

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5

Temporal Score: 3.7

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.3

Temporal Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apache:couchdb

Patch Publication Date: 3/31/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 3/31/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-0009

BID: 39116