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.
References
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http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3E | Vendor Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94766 | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/ | Third Party Advisory VDB Entry |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published: 2016-12-08T00:00:00
Updated: 2018-02-13T10:57:01
Reserved: 2016-10-18T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2016-8742
JSON object: View
NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2018-02-12T17:29:00.277
Modified: 2018-03-14T12:13:07.520
Link: CVE-2016-8742
JSON object: View
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CWE