SUSE-SU-2018:2765-1

Vulnerability from csaf_suse - Published: 2018-09-20 06:06 - Updated: 2018-09-20 06:06
Summary
Security update for couchdb

Notes

Title of the patch
Security update for couchdb
Description of the patch
This update for couchdb fixes the following security issues: - CVE-2018-8007: Apache CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Due to insufficient validation of administrator-supplied configuration settings via the HTTP API, it was possible for a CouchDB administrator user to escalate their privileges to that of the operating system's user that CouchDB runs under, by bypassing the blacklist of configuration settings that are not allowed to be modified via the HTTP API (bsc#1100973)
Patchnames
SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Crowbar-8-2018-1930
Terms of use
CSAF 2.0 data is provided by SUSE under the Creative Commons License 4.0 with Attribution (CC-BY-4.0).
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