CWE Code: 264
Vulnerability Type: privilege_escalation
CVSS Score: 7.2
CWE Name:  Permissions Privileges and Access Controls
Summary: 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.
Access Authentication: NONE
Access Complexity: LOW
Access Vector: LOCAL
Impact (C/I/A): COMPLETE/COMPLETE/COMPLETE
Published Date: 2018-02-12
Last Modified Date: 2018-03-14