CVE-2018-15728

Severity: high (CVSS 8.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2018-08-24 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-94

Description

Couchbase Server exposed the '/diag/eval' endpoint which by default is available on TCP/8091 and/or TCP/18091. Authenticated users that have 'Full Admin' role assigned could send arbitrary Erlang code to the 'diag/eval' endpoint of the API and the code would subsequently be executed in the underlying operating system with privileges of the user which was used to start Couchbase. Affects Version: 4.0.0, 4.1.2, 4.5.1, 5.0.0, 4.6.5, 5.0.1, 5.1.1, 5.5.0, 5.5.1. Fix Version: 6.0.0, 5.5.2

Affected products

Couchbase Server: all versions

References

http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Aug/49
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105157
https://www.couchbase.com/resources/security#SecurityAlerts
http://seclists.org/bugtraq/2018/Aug/49
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/105157
https://www.couchbase.com/resources/security#SecurityAlerts

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