CVE-2016-8742

The 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.

CVSS v3.0

7.8 HIGHCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

7.2 HIGHAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

EPSS

1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 79th percentile

Published

2018-02-12

Updated

2024-09-17

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2016-8740
• CVE-2016-8744
• CVE-2016-8735
• CVE-2016-8769
• CVE-2016-8732
• CVE-2016-8776