CVE-2023-45725 (GCVE-0-2023-45725)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2023-12-13 08:02 – Updated: 2024-08-02 20:29
VLAI
Title
Apache CouchDB, IBM Cloudant: Privilege Escalation Using _design Documents
Summary
Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose authorization or session cookie headers of the user who accesses the document. These design document functions are: *   list *   show *   rewrite *   update An attacker can leak the session component using an HTML-like output, insert the session as an external resource (such as an image), or store the credential in a _local document with an "update" function. For the attack to succeed the attacker has to be able to insert the design documents into the database, then manipulate a user to access a function from that design document. Workaround: Avoid using design documents from untrusted sources which may attempt to access or manipulate request object's headers
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • CWE-200 - Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor
Assigner
apache CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard B 76/100 over 1169 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB Affected: 0 , ≤ 3.3.2 (semver)
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Apache Software Foundation IBM Cloudant Affected: 0 , < 8413 (semver)
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Credits
Natan Nehorai from the JFrog Vulnerability Research Team Or Peles from the JFrog Vulnerability Research Team Richard Ellis from IBM/Cloudant Team Mike Rhodes from IBM/Cloudant Team
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