CVE-2023-45725 — Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose au

Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose authorization or session cookie headers of the user who accesses the document.

01What is this vulnerability?

Design document functions which receive a user http request object may expose authorization or session cookie headers of the user who accesses the document.

02Affected products

Vendor	Product	Versions
Apache Software Foundation	Apache CouchDB	0
Apache Software Foundation	IBM Cloudant	0

03Active exploitation status

Not currently listed on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. EPSS is the best forward-looking signal — see the EPSS row above.

04Recommended remediation

• Patch to a fixed version listed in the vendor advisory (see references below).
• Mitigate with WAF rules, network egress filters, or feature flags where the patch is not yet available.
• Hunt historical logs for exploitation indicators — see Detection signatures below.

05Technical details

For the full vendor write-up, exploit chains, and reference implementations, see the references list in section 09.

06Detection signatures

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07Related CVEs

No directly-cited follow-up CVEs in the KB record for this advisory. The references list in section 09 carries the vendor cross-references.

08Timeline

• Published: 2023-12-13T08:02:17.326Z
• Last modified: 2024-08-02T20:29:31.714Z

09References

• lists.apache.org — https://lists.apache.org/thread/pqjq9zt8vq9rsobkc1cow9sqm9vozlrg
• docs.couchdb.org — https://docs.couchdb.org/en/stable/cve/2023-45725.html