CVE-2012-5650

Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in the Futon UI in Apache CouchDB before 1.0.4, 1.1.x before 1.1.2, and 1.2.x before 1.2.1 allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML via unspecified parameters to the browser-based test suite.

Published: 2014-03-18 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]

Conclusion & alert: CVE-2012-5650 is rated Moderate Risk (51.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with medium exploitation likelihood (EPSS 3.84%). Core evidence: EPSS rose +2.95% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Mandatory action: Review affected assets and schedule remediation.

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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2012-5650

EPSS lead: Daily EPSS estimates relative likelihood of exploitation; percentile ranks this CVE among scored vulnerabilities (higher = more severe relative rank).

# Date Old EPSS score New EPSS score Delta (New - Old)
1 2026-06-15 0.90% 3.84% +2.95%
2 2025-12-28 0.96% 0.90% -0.06%
3 2025-12-27 0.96%

Full EPSS history (13 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2012-5650

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
4.3 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:M)
Exploitation needs some favorable conditions, but not exceptional ones.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:P)
Partial integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:N)
No availability impact.
8.6 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2012-5650

OS Trackers for CVE-2012-5650

vendor priority summary link
ubuntu low CVE-2012-5650 low priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (couchdb), 15 status rows across 15 suites (hardy, lucid, oneiric, precise, quantal, raring, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): not-affected 8, ignored 4, DNE 2, released 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-5650

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2012-5650

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache couchdb <= 1.0.3 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.0.0 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.0.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.0.1 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.0.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.0.2 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.0.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.1.0 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.1.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.1.1 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.1.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
apache couchdb 1.2.0 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:1.2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2012-5650

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