CVE-2020-9041 describes a Slowloris denial-of-service vulnerability affecting Couchbase Server versions 6.0.3 and earlier, and Couchbase Sync Gateway through 2.7.0. The vulnerability stems from the products' failure to aggressively terminate slow connections to their cluster management, views, query, and full-text search endpoints. With a CVSS score of 7.5 (High), this vulnerability is easily exploitable over the network with low complexity, requiring no user interaction or privileges, and can lead to a complete denial of service. Currently, there is no evidence of active exploitation, no public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), and minimal community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.0.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:couchbase:couchbase_server:6.0.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
<= 2.7.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:couchbase:sync_gateway:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
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No media coverage found for this CVE.
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.