CouchDB version 3.0.0 shipped with a new configuration setting that governs access control to the entire database server called `require_valid_user_except_for_up`. It was meant as an extension to the long standing setting `require_valid_user`, which in turn requires that any and all requests to CouchDB will have to be made with valid credentials, effectively forbidding any anonymous requests. The new `require_valid_user_except_for_up` is an off-by-default setting that was meant to allow requiring valid credentials for all endpoints except for the `/_up` endpoint. However, the implementation of this made an error that lead to not enforcing credentials on any endpoint, when enabled. CouchDB versions 3.0.1[1] and 3.1.0[2] fix this issue.
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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: apache
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-04T06:54:00.400Z
Reserved: 2019-12-02T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2020-1955

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Status : Modified
Published: 2020-05-20T14:15:11.550
Modified: 2024-11-21T05:11:43.880
Link: CVE-2020-1955

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