svn commit: r487870 - head/security/vuxml

Dave Cottlehuber dch at FreeBSD.org
Thu Dec 20 09:38:20 UTC 2018


Author: dch
Date: Thu Dec 20 09:38:19 2018
New Revision: 487870
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/487870

Log:
  Document databases/couchdb2 and databases/couchdb vulnerability
  
  Approved by:	jrm (mentor)
  Security:	CVE-2018-17188
  Security:	see http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2018-17188.html
  Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D18498

Modified:
  head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml

Modified: head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Thu Dec 20 09:30:11 2018	(r487869)
+++ head/security/vuxml/vuln.xml	Thu Dec 20 09:38:19 2018	(r487870)
@@ -58,6 +58,39 @@ Notes:
   * Do not forget port variants (linux-f10-libxml2, libxml2, etc.)
 -->
 <vuxml xmlns="http://www.vuxml.org/apps/vuxml-1">
+  <vuln vid="1999a215-fc6b-11e8-8a95-ac1f6b67e138">
+    <topic>couchdb -- administrator privilege escalation</topic>
+    <affects>
+      <package>
+	<name>couchdb</name>
+	<range><lt>2.3.0,2</lt></range>
+      </package>
+      <package>
+	<name>couchdb2</name>
+	<range><lt>2.3.0</lt></range>
+      </package>
+    </affects>
+    <description>
+      <body xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
+	<p>Apache CouchDB PMC reports:</p>
+	<blockquote cite="https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/...">
+	  <p>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.</p>
+	</blockquote>
+      </body>
+    </description>
+    <references>
+      <url>http://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2018-17188.html</url>
+      <cvename>CVE-2018-17188</cvename>
+    </references>
+    <dates>
+      <discovery>2018-12-01</discovery>
+      <entry>2018-12-13</entry>
+    </dates>
+  </vuln>
+
   <vuln vid="b80f039d-579e-4b82-95ad-b534a709f220">
     <topic>bro -- "Magellan" remote code execution vulnerability in bundled sqlite</topic>
     <affects>


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