CVE-2016-8742

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Summary

CVECVE-2016-8742
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2018-02-12 17:29:00 UTC
Updated2018-03-14 12:13:00 UTC
DescriptionThe Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-264

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Apache Couchdb 2.0.0 All All All
Application Apache Couchdb 2.0.0 All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All
Operating System Microsoft Windows - All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Apache CouchDB CVE-2016-8742 Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability BID www.securityfocus.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE-2016-8742 Apache CouchDB local privilege escalation on Windows MLIST mail-archives.apache.org Vendor Advisory
Apache CouchDB 2.0.0 - Local Privilege Escalation - Windows local Exploit EXPLOIT-DB www.exploit-db.com Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis
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