CVE-2012-5641

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Published 2014-03-18 · 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

5.0

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.

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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Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
apache	couchdb	`{"endIncluding":"1.0.3"}`
apache	couchdb	`1.0.0`
apache	couchdb	`1.0.1`
apache	couchdb	`1.0.2`
apache	couchdb	`1.1.0`
apache	couchdb	`1.1.1`
apache	couchdb	`1.2.0`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`{"endIncluding":"2.3.2"}`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`2.1.0`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`2.2.0`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`2.2.1`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`2.3.0`
mochiweb_project	mochiweb	`2.3.1`

References

CWEs

CWE-22

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

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.