CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user under which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007.

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available.

  - CouchDB administrative users before 2.2.0 can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to     insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it is possible     for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user under     which CouchDB runs, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be     modified via the HTTP API. This privilege escalation effectively allows a CouchDB admin user to gain     arbitrary remote code execution, bypassing CVE-2017-12636 and CVE-2018-8007. (CVE-2018-11769)

Note that Nessus relies on the presence of the package as reported by the vendor.

CouchDB 3.0.0

Note that Tenable Network Security has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora update system website.
Tenable has attempted to automatically clean and format it as much as possible without introducing additional issues.

The remote host is affected by the vulnerability described in GLSA-201812-06 (CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities)

    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in CouchDB. Please review       the CVE identifiers referenced below for details.
  Impact :

    A remote attacker could execute arbitrary code or escalate privileges.
  Workaround :

    There is no known workaround at this time.

Apache CouchDB PMC reports :

Database Administrator could achieve privilege escalation to the account that CouchDB runs under, by abusing insufficient validation in the HTTP API, escaping security controls implemented in previous releases.

According to its banner, the version of CouchDB running on the remote host is 1.x or 2.1.x prior to 2.1.2. It is, therefore, potentially affected by a privilege escalation which could allow a CouchDB administrative user to gain remote code execution on the underlying operating system. 

Note that Nessus did not actually test for these flaws but instead, has relied on the version in CouchDB's banner.

ID	Name	Product	Family	Severity
260681	Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2018-11769	Nessus	Misc.	high
134580	Fedora 31 : couchdb (2020-83f513fd7e)	Nessus	Fedora Local Security Checks	high
119702	GLSA-201812-06 : CouchDB: Multiple vulnerabilities	Nessus	Gentoo Local Security Checks	high
112052	FreeBSD : couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation (9b19b6df-a4be-11e8-9366-0028f8d09152)	Nessus	FreeBSD Local Security Checks	high
111967	Apache CouchDB 1.x / 2.1.x <= 2.1.2 Privilege Escalation	Nessus	Databases	high

Detections

Analytics

CVE-2018-11769

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Tenable Plugins

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