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CVE-2021-38295

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CVE-2021-38295

Published: Oct 14, 2021

Modified: Aug 4, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

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

VendorProductVersions

Apache Software Foundation

Apache CouchDB

affected
Apache CouchDB - < 3.1.2

Apache Software Foundation

IBM Cloudant

affected
IBM Cloudant - < 8201

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