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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| Apache Software Foundation | Apache CouchDB | affected |
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| Source | ID | Title |
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 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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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
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Updated: 2024-09-17T00:26:42.742Z
Reserved: 2016-10-18T00:00:00.000Z
Link: CVE-2016-8742
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2018-02-12T17:29:00.277
Modified: 2024-11-21T02:59:58.370
Link: CVE-2016-8742
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