CVE-2012-5641 Path traversal in n/a

What is CVE-2012-5641?

CVE-2012-5641 is a medium-severity path traversal vulnerability in n/a, published on 18 Mar 2014. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Directory traversal vulnerability in the partition2 function in mochiweb_util.erl in MochiWeb before 2.4.0, as used in Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1, allows remote attackers to read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the default URI.

Weakness: CWE-22

Which versions are affected by CVE-2012-5641?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apache Couchdb, Mochiweb Project Mochiweb.

How do I fix CVE-2012-5641?

No fix has been published for CVE-2012-5641 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.

Is CVE-2012-5641 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2012-5641 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in n/a

• CVE-2022-24706 Apache CouchDB Insecure Default Initialization of Resource Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-1955 Auth bypass in Apache CouchDB Critical 9.8
• CVE-2017-12635 Privilege escalation in Apache CouchDB Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-14889 Code injection in n/a High 7.8
• CVE-2016-8742 Privilege escalation in Apache CouchDB High 7.8

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-99r9-958v-rr3x.