cvelist/2020/1xxx/CVE-2020-1955.json

{
    "data_type": "CVE",
    "data_format": "MITRE",
    "data_version": "4.0",
    "CVE_data_meta": {
        "ID": "CVE-2020-1955",
        "ASSIGNER": "security@apache.org",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC"
    },
    "affects": {
        "vendor": {
            "vendor_data": [
                {
                    "vendor_name": "n/a",
                    "product": {
                        "product_data": [
                            {
                                "product_name": "Apache CouchDB",
                                "version": {
                                    "version_data": [
                                        {
                                            "version_value": "Apache CouchDB 3.0.0"
                                        }
                                    ]
                                }
                            }
                        ]
                    }
                }
            ]
        }
    },
    "problemtype": {
        "problemtype_data": [
            {
                "description": [
                    {
                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "Remote Privilege Escalation"
                    }
                ]
            }
        ]
    },
    "references": {
        "reference_data": [
            {
                "refsource": "MISC",
                "name": "https://docs.couchdb.org/en/master/cve/2020-1955.html",
                "url": "https://docs.couchdb.org/en/master/cve/2020-1955.html"
            }
        ]
    },
    "description": {
        "description_data": [
            {
                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server called `require_valid_user_except_for_up`. It was meant as an extension to the long standing setting `require_valid_user`, which in turn requires that any and all requests to CouchDB will have to be made with valid credentials, effectively forbidding any anonymous requests. The new `require_valid_user_except_for_up` is an off-by-default setting that was meant to allow requiring valid credentials for all endpoints except for the `/_up` endpoint. However, the implementation of this made an error that lead to not enforcing credentials on any endpoint, when enabled. CouchDB versions 3.0.1[1] and 3.1.0[2] fix this issue."
            }
        ]
    }
}