CVE-2014-2668

Exp

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.

Published: 2014-03-28 Last update: 2026-05-06 Assigner: [email protected] Source: [email protected]
NVD Status：Modified，CVE State: published
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CVE-2014-2668 is rated High Exploit Risk (74.2/100): CVSS Medium severity, with high exploitation likelihood (EPSS 48.83%, 98th percentile). 3 public exploit reference(s) are indexed (Exploit-DB). EPSS rose +8.46% over the last day, indicating growing attacker interest. Public exploits are available—assess exposure, apply mitigations, and prioritize patching.

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Public exploit references (Exploit-DB) for CVE-2014-2668

EDB-ID Source Kind Published Link
32519 exploit_db edb 2014-03-26 Exploit-DB ↗
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Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2014-2668

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 2026-05-09 40.37% 48.83% +8.46%
2 2025-12-28 37.14% 40.37% +3.23%
3 2025-12-27 — 37.14% —

Full EPSS history (21 records total)

Common vulnerability scoring system (CVSS) metrics for CVE-2014-2668

CVSS metrics for this CVE.

Base score Version Severity Vector Exploitability Impact Score source
5.0 2.0 MEDIUM
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P Click to expand
Access vector (AV:N)
Can be exploited remotely over network reachability.
Access complexity (AC:L)
Exploitation conditions are straightforward and predictable.
Authentication (AU:N)
No authentication is required.
Confidentiality impact (C:N)
No confidentiality impact.
Integrity impact (I:N)
No integrity impact.
Availability impact (A:P)
Partial availability impact.
 10.0 2.9 [email protected]

Weakness enumeration for CVE-2014-2668

OS Trackers for CVE-2014-2668

vendor priority summary link
gentoo normal CVE-2014-2668: 1 GLSA(s) (201412-16), 1 atom(s) (dev-db/couchdb); latest impact normal. https://bugs.gentoo.org/buglist.cgi?quicksearch=CVE-2014-2668
ubuntu medium CVE-2014-2668 medium priority: Ubuntu including 1 source packages (couchdb), 22 status rows across 22 suites (artful, bionic, cosmic, disco, eoan, focal, groovy, hirsute, impish, jammy, lucid, precise, quantal, saucy, trusty, upstream, utopic, vivid, wily, xenial, yakkety, zesty): DNE 10, ignored 10, needed 1, not-affected 1. https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-2668

Affected software / configurations for CVE-2014-2668

Vendor Product Version Raw CPE
apache couchdb <= 1.5.0 cpe:2.3:a:apache:couchdb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

References for CVE-2014-2668

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