CVE-2022-42950 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

An issue was discovered in Couchbase Server 7.x before 7.0.5 and 7.1.x before 7.1.2. A crafted HTTP REST request from an administrator account to the Couchbase Server Backup Service can exhaust memory resources, causing the process to be killed, which can be used for denial of service.

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required High

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact partial

Vendors	Products
Couchbase	Couchbase Server

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:a:couchbase:couchbase_server::::::::
	cpe:2.3:a:couchbase:couchbase_server::::::::

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References

Link	Providers
https://docs.couchbase.com/server/current/release-notes/relnotes.html
https://forums.couchbase.com/tags/security
https://www.couchbase.com/alerts/

History

Wed, 26 Mar 2025 15:15:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Weaknesses		CWE-400
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'partial'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2023-02-06T00:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2025-03-26T14:31:42.349Z

Reserved: 2022-10-15T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2022-42950

Vulnrichment

Updated: 2024-08-03T13:19:05.504Z

NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2023-02-06T21:15:09.300

Modified: 2025-03-26T15:15:39.937

Link: CVE-2022-42950

Redhat

No data.

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