Vulnerability · Published Nov 2, 2021 · Assigned by mitre
CVE-2021-42763
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
Couchbase Server before 6.6.3 and 7.x before 7.0.2 stores Sensitive Information in Cleartext. The issue occurs when the cluster manager forwards a HTTP request from the pluggable UI (query workbench etc) to the specific service. In the backtrace, the Basic Auth Header included in the HTTP request, has the "@" user credentials of the node processing the UI request.
Affected products (as reported)
References
- https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html x_refsource_MISC
- https://www.couchbase.com/alerts x_refsource_MISC