The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation.

Published 8 y ago 2018-02-12 · modified 4 mo ago 2026-06-17 · JSON

CVSS

7.8

v3.0 · NVD

CISA KEV

not known exploited

EPSS

2.0%

percentile 80%

Public exploits

Exploit-DB

The Windows installer that the Apache CouchDB team provides was vulnerable to local privilege escalation. All files in the install inherit the file permissions of the parent directory and therefore a non-privileged user can substitute any executable for the nssm.exe service launcher, or CouchDB batch or binary files. A subsequent service or server restart will then run that binary with administrator privilege. This issue affected CouchDB 2.0.0 (Windows platform only) and was addressed in CouchDB 2.0.0.1.

Exploit prediction (EPSS)

1.96% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs.

Exploits and detections

EDB-40865 Apache CouchDB 2.0.0 - Local Privilege Escalation · local · 2016-12-05

CVSS scores

Assigned by	Version	Score	Vector
NVD	3.0	7.8	`CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H`
NVD	2.0	7.2	`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C`

Affected products

Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB

Classification

Weakness

CWE-264 Permissions, Privileges, and Access Controls

References

mail-archives.apache.org /mod_mbox/couchdb-dev/201612.mbox/%3C825F65E1-0E5F-4E1F-8053-CF2C6200C526%40apache.org%3E · mailing-list, x_refsource_MLIST, x_transferred
exploit-db.com /exploits/40865/ · exploit, x_refsource_EXPLOIT-DB, x_transferred
securityfocus.com /bid/94766 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred

Sources

CVE List: CVE-2016-8742
NVD: CVE-2016-8742

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Summary