CVE-2017-12636 SUSE CVE security@suse.de SUSE Security Team SUSE CVE-2017-12636 Interim 1 9 2025-04-22T23:43:16Z current 2021-05-30T14:00:02Z 2025-04-22T23:43:16Z cve-database/bin/generate-cvrf-cve.pl 2020-12-27T01:00:00Z CVE-2017-12636 CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet. The CVRF data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0). https://lists.suse.com/pipermail/sle-security-updates/2018-August/004523.html E-Mail link for SUSE-SU-2018:2578-1 https://www.suse.com/support/security/rating/ SUSE Security Ratings SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 couchdb-1.7.2-2.8.2 couchdb-1.7.2-2.8.2 as a component of SUSE Enterprise Storage 4 couchdb-1.7.2-2.8.2 as a component of SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet. CVE-2017-12636 SUSE Enterprise Storage 4:couchdb-1.7.2-2.8.2 SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7:couchdb-1.7.2-2.8.2 critical 6.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P 9.9 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H