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Test ID:1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.105903
Category:Databases
Title:Apache CouchDB <= 1.0.3, 1.1.x <= 1.1.1, 1.2.0 Directory Traversal Vulnerability
Summary:Apache CouchDB is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability in; the MobchiWeb component.
Description:Summary:
Apache CouchDB is prone to a directory traversal vulnerability in
the MobchiWeb component.

Vulnerability Insight:
On Windows systems there is a directory traversal vulnerability
in the partition2 function in mochiweb_util.erl in MochiWeb before 2.4.0, as used in Apache CouchDB
allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the default URI.

Vulnerability Impact:
A remote attacker could retrieve in binary form any CouchDB
database, including the _users or _replication databases, or any other file that the user account
used to run CouchDB might have read access to on the local filesystem.

Affected Software/OS:
Apache CouchDB version 1.0.3 and prior, 1.1.x through 1.1.1 and
1.2.0 on Windows.

Solution:
Update to version 1.0.4, 1.1.2, 1.2.1 or later.

CVSS Score:
5.0

CVSS Vector:
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Cross-Ref: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2012-5641
BugTraq ID: 57313
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/57313
http://seclists.org/fulldisclosure/2013/Jan/81
http://secunia.com/advisories/51765
XForce ISS Database: apache-couchdb-dir-traversal(81240)
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/81240
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