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CVE-2023-26268

19
FAUCET Score

CVE-2023-26268 is a medium-severity vulnerability affecting Apache CouchDB and IBM Cloudant/CouchDB, where design documents with matching IDs can share a mutable JavaScript environment when using specific functions like validate_doc_update or list. This could lead to information disclosure (C:L) due to unintended data sharing within the JavaScript environment. The vulnerability has a CVSS score of 5.3 (AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:N), indicating it can be exploited remotely with low attack complexity and no user interaction. There is currently no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
< 3.2.3CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
>= 3.3.0, < 3.3.2CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
<= 8349CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:ibm:cloudant:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.1

4.4MEDIUM

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
HIGH
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
REQUIRED
Scope
CHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
LOW
Integrity Impact
LOW
Availability Impact
NONE
Exploitability Score
1.3
Impact Score
2.7
CvssVersion
3.1

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.43%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
70.2%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0143 is in the 52nd percentile among its peer group of 23,723 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

docs.couchdb.org / en/stable/cve/2023-26268.html
Vendor Advisory
lists.apache.org / thread/ldkqs0nhpmho26bdxf4fon7w75hsq5gl
Mailing List
lists.apache.org / thread/r2wvjfysg3d92lhhjd1qh3wfr8mlp0pp
Mailing List