Security advisory

{
  "id": "c4f1b797f8c9f0729ce578ab9fb372924a1783cc505cb33d77b9d4fc774c4c13",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-8742",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-8742",
    "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.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-8742",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-8742",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-8742"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/apache/couchdb",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "cb02b9b812174609403d67f60c314959388ba06c"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "cb02b9b812174609403d67f60c314959388ba06c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:2.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.0.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.0.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.0.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8742.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:40.877825265Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/40865/"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {}
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-8742",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 435030,
  "published_at": "2018-02-12T17:29:00.277+00:00"
}