6.9
CVSSv2

CVE-2010-2953

Published: 14/09/2010 Updated: 14/09/2010
CVSS v2 Base Score: 6.9 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.4
VMScore: 614
Vector: AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Summary

Untrusted search path vulnerability in a certain Debian GNU/Linux patch for the couchdb script in CouchDB 0.8.0 allows local users to gain privileges via a crafted shared library in the current working directory.

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Dan Rosenberg discovered that in couchdb, a distributed, fault-tolerant and schema-free document-oriented database, an insecure library search path is used A local attacker could execute arbitrary code by first dumping a maliciously crafted shared library in some directory, and then having an administrator run couchdb from this same directory For ...