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CVE-2022-33173 (GCVE-0-2022-33173)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2022-07-11 12:20 – Updated: 2024-08-03 08:01
VLAI
Summary
An algorithm-downgrade issue was discovered in Couchbase Server before 7.0.4. Analytics Remote Links may temporarily downgrade to non-TLS connection to determine the TLS port number, using SCRAM-SHA instead.
Severity
7.5 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CWE
  • n/a
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