Description
In Couchbase Server 4.6.3 and 5.5.0, secondary indexing encodes the entries to be indexed using collatejson. When index entries contain certain characters like \t, <, >, it caused buffer overrun as encoded string would be much larger than accounted for, causing indexer service to crash and restart. This has been remedied in versions 5.1.2 and 5.5.2 to ensure buffer always grows as needed for any input.
References (1)
Core 1
Core References
Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.couchbase.com/resources/security#SecurityAlerts
Scores
CVSS v3
7.5
EPSS
0.0134
EPSS Percentile
67.8%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-119
Status
published
Products (2)
couchbase/couchbase_server
4.6.3
couchbase/couchbase_server
5.5.0
Published
Sep 10, 2019
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026