Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2024-03-06 10:51
Modified
2025-04-03 14:40
Summary
Details

CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server called require_valid_user_except_for_up. It was meant as an extension to the long standing setting require_valid_user, which in turn requires that any and all requests to CouchDB will have to be made with valid credentials, effectively forbidding any anonymous requests. The new require_valid_user_except_for_up is an off-by-default setting that was meant to allow requiring valid credentials for all endpoints except for the /_up endpoint. However, the implementation of this made an error that lead to not enforcing credentials on any endpoint, when enabled. CouchDB versions 3.0.1[1] and 3.1.0[2] fix this issue.


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "couchdb",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/couchdb"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "3.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "3.0.1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2020-1955"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:3.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
      "cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server called `require_valid_user_except_for_up`. It was meant as an extension to the long standing setting `require_valid_user`, which in turn requires that any and all requests to CouchDB will have to be made with valid credentials, effectively forbidding any anonymous requests. The new `require_valid_user_except_for_up` is an off-by-default setting that was meant to allow requiring valid credentials for all endpoints except for the `/_up` endpoint. However, the implementation of this made an error that lead to not enforcing credentials on any endpoint, when enabled. CouchDB versions 3.0.1[1] and 3.1.0[2] fix this issue.",
  "id": "BIT-couchdb-2020-1955",
  "modified": "2025-04-03T14:40:37.652Z",
  "published": "2024-03-06T10:51:42.871Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://docs.couchdb.org/en/master/cve/2020-1955.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2020-1955"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.5.0"
}


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