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Fencer Vulns
high 7.8

CVE-2016-8742 json

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

published 2018-02-12 8 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-9576

cvss
7.8
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.0%
EPSS 2.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 80%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-40865)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

1.96% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 80% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • 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

Sources

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