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CouchDB < 0.11.2 Futon Admin Interface Cross-Site Request Forgery

medium Nessus Network Monitor Plugin ID 5642

Synopsis

The remote database server is vulnerable to a cross-site request forgery attack.

Description

The remote host is running CouchDB, a document-oriented database.

Versions of CouchDB earlier than 0.11.2 are potentially affected by a cross-site request forgery vulnerability. The application fails to properly sanitize user-supplied input before it is used in the Futon administrative interface.

 remote attacker could exploit this to execute arbitrary script code in the security context of CouchDB's admin interface.

Solution

Upgrade to CouchDB 0.11.2 or later.

See Also

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2010-08/0200.html

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 5642

Family: Database

Published: 8/17/2010

Updated: 3/6/2019

Nessus ID: 48382

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 5.8

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.6

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

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 5.6

Temporal Score: 5.2

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

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

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/a:apache:couchdb

Patch Publication Date: 8/17/2010

Vulnerability Publication Date: 8/17/2010

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2010-2234

BID: 42501