The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.
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EUVD EUVD EUVD-2016-9576 The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: apache

Published:

Updated: 2024-09-17T00:26:42.742Z

Reserved: 2016-10-18T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2016-8742

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Status : Modified

Published: 2018-02-12T17:29:00.277

Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:58.370

Link: CVE-2016-8742

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