Vulnerability · Published May 2, 2023 · Assigned by apache

CVE-2023-26268Apache CouchDB, IBM Cloudant: Information sharing via couchjs processes

Medium 4.4

In plain English

A medium-severity information exposure in Apache CouchDB from Apache Software Foundation. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 1.4% (higher than 73% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)4.4Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)1.4%top 26.9% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

Design documents with matching document IDs, from databases on the same cluster, may share a mutable Javascript environment when using these design document functions: * validate_doc_update * list * filter * filter views (using view functions as filters) * rewrite * update This doesn't affect map/reduce or search (Dreyfus) index functions. Users are recommended to upgrade to a version that is no longer affected by this issue (Apache CouchDB 3.3.2 or 3.2.3). Workaround: Avoid using design documents from untrusted sources which may attempt to cache or store data in the Javascript environment.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache CouchDB	0 – through 3.3.1
Apache Software Foundation	IBM Cloudant	0 – through 8349

Weakness: CWE-200 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N

References

https://lists.apache.org/thread/r2wvjfysg3d92lhhjd1qh3wfr8mlp0pp vendor-advisory
https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2023-26268.html release-notes
https://lists.apache.org/thread/ldkqs0nhpmho26bdxf4fon7w75hsq5gl vendor-advisory