CVE-2017-12636

highpriority · attend · 71EPSS 0.906 · 100 %ileexploit · weaponizedEUUS

grimoire priorityP1 · Urgent

Exploitable?

Public exploit

5 exploits · weaponized

Likely / severe?

90.6% (100th) EPSS

CVSS 9 · high

Is it mine?

4 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

3 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-27

CouchDB administrative users can configure the database server via HTTP(S). Some of the configuration options include paths for operating system-level binaries that are subsequently launched by CouchDB. This allows an admin user in Apache CouchDB before 1.7.0 and 2.x before 2.1.1 to execute arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB user, including downloading and executing scripts from the public internet.

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

9.0

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v2.09highAV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:C/I:C/A:Cprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 8 · impact 10

v3.07.2highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.2 · impact 5.9

v3.07.2highCVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Hsecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-78USprimary

exploits (5)

Public proof-of-concept and weaponised exploit code.

exploit/linux/http/apache_couchdb_cmd_execApache CouchDB Arbitrary Command Executionweaponized · metasploit
EDB-44913Apache CouchDB < 2.1.0 - Remote Code Executionfunctional · exploit_db
EDB-45019Apache CouchDB - Arbitrary Command Execution (Metasploit)functional · exploit_db
XTeam-Wing/CVE-2017-12636CVE-2017-12636|exploit Couchdb PoC · poc_in_github
moayadalmalat/CVE-2017-12636moayadalmalat/CVE-2017-12636PoC · poc_in_github

affected products (4)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB≤ 1.2.0 to 1.6.1enisa_euvdEU
Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB≤ 2.0.0 to 2.1.0enisa_euvdEU
apache couchdb< 1.7.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb= 2.0.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

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cnnvd enisa_euvd nvd NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2017-11-14modified 2026-06-17

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references (18)

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