Vulnerability · Published Nov 2, 2021 · Assigned by mitre

CVE-2021-37842

High 7.5

In plain English

A high-severity security flaw in the affected software. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.6% (higher than 49% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS NVD)7.5High

Exploit odds (30 days)0.6%top 50.7% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsnot in CISA KEV

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

metakv in Couchbase Server 7.0.0 uses Cleartext for Storage of Sensitive Information. Remote Cluster XDCR credentials can get leaked in debug logs. Config key tombstone purging was added in Couchbase Server 7.0.0. This issue happens when a config key, which is being logged, has a tombstone purger time-stamp attached to it.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html x_refsource_MISC
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts x_refsource_MISC