CVE-2018-11769 is a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability affecting Apache CouchDB versions prior to 2.2.0. An authenticated administrative user can bypass configuration setting blacklists via the HTTP API, leading to arbitrary remote code execution as the operating system user running CouchDB. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 7.2, indicating a network-based attack with low complexity and high impact on confidentiality, integrity, and availability. While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog, it has a notable EPSS score and has received some community discussion and media coverage, though no public exploit code or Metasploit modules are currently available.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
< 2.2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.0
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.1 Mastodon, and 0.3 GitHub mentions.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.