cvelist/2021/38xxx/CVE-2021-38295.json

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        "ID": "CVE-2021-38295",
        "STATE": "PUBLIC",
        "TITLE": "Privilege escalation vulnerability when using HTML attachments"
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                    "vendor_name": "Apache Software Foundation"
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                    "product": {
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                            {
                                "product_name": "IBM Cloudant",
                                "version": {
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                                            "version_affected": "<",
                                            "version_name": "IBM Cloudant",
                                            "version_value": "8201"
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                    "vendor_name": "Apache Software Foundation"
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    "credit": [
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            "lang": "eng",
            "value": "This issue was identified by Cory Sabol of Secure Ideas."
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    "description": {
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                "lang": "eng",
                "value": "In Apache CouchDB, a malicious user with permission to create documents in a database is able to attach a HTML attachment to a document. If a CouchDB admin opens that attachment in a browser, e.g. via the CouchDB admin interface Fauxton, any JavaScript code embedded in that HTML attachment will be executed within the security context of that admin. A similar route is available with the already deprecated _show and _list functionality. This privilege escalation vulnerability allows an attacker to add or remove data in any database or make configuration changes. This issue affected Apache CouchDB prior to 3.1.2"
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                "description": [
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                        "lang": "eng",
                        "value": "Privilege escalation"
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                "refsource": "MISC",
                "url": "https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2021-38295.html",
                "name": "https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2021-38295.html"
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        "discovery": "UNKNOWN"
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