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CVE-2014-2668 json

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

published 12y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2014-2700

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
22.7%
EPSS 22.7% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

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red hat product security vex CVE-2014-2668 updated cvss 5.0

couchdb: remote denial of service flaw

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-32519)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

22.69% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-32519 Apache CouchDB 1.5.0 - 'uuids' Denial of Service dos, 2014-03-26
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/66474 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation

References

Sources

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