CouchDB Default Credentials Detection
couchdb-default-credentials is a critical severity check in the
databases category, written in rust.
Its source is templates/databases/couchdb/couchdb_default_creds.rs in
cert-x-gen-templates.
What it checks
Section titled “What it checks”Detects CouchDB instances using default credentials or running in Party Mode
Header
Section titled “Header”| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Id | couchdb-default-credentials |
| Severity | critical |
| Language | rust |
| Category | databases |
| Author | CERT-X-GEN Security Team |
| Template version | not recorded |
| Confidence | 95 |
| CVSS | not recorded |
| Weakness | CWE-798 |
| Tags | couchdb, database, default-credentials, nosql, authentication |
| Target kind | not recorded |
| Oracle | not recorded |
Run it
Section titled “Run it”To see what the copy on your machine says about itself, and to confirm it is installed at all:
cxg template info couchdb-default-credentialsThe id it prints is the one to pass anywhere a template is selected. See
cxg template for the rest of
the subcommand, Scan a target for running
a scan, and
A match is not a finding for how
to read what comes back.
Related
Section titled “Related”- Template catalog is the whole corpus.
- databases is the rest of this category.
- Templates by weakness class groups checks by the defect they look for.
- Contribute a template is the route from a check you needed and could not find to a merged one.