CVE-2022-42951 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server 6.5.x and 6.6.x before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2. During the start-up of a Couchbase Server node, there is a small window of time (before the cluster management authentication has started) where an attacker can connect to the cluster manager using default credentials.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00253.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

Vendors	Products
Couchbase	Couchbase Server

Configuration 1 [-]

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2022-46006	An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server 6.5.x and 6.6.x before 6.6.6, 7.x before 7.0.5, and 7.1.x before 7.1.2. During the start-up of a Couchbase Server node, there is a small window of time (before the cluster management authentication has started) where an attacker can connect to the cluster manager using default credentials.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html
https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/

History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T14:29:39.706Z

Reserved: 2022-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42951

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.442Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T21:15:09.357

Modified: 2025-03-26T15:15:40.167

Link: CVE-2022-42951

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

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