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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD9.3 Critical

CVE-2026-86471

Apache CouchDB: Admin credentials leading to code execution as operating system user

Description

An unvalidated runtime configuration value in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms allows a CouchDB server admin to run arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB operating system user. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.3, which fixes this issue.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

Apache Software Foundation Apache CouchDB

Default version status: unaffected

  • 0 to < 3.5.3affected

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