What is GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95?

GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with Critical severity. An unvalidated runtime configuration value in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95 cover?

GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-86471. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95Critical

An unvalidated runtime configuration value in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 20, 2026

Last Modified

October 20, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-86471 →

📋 Description

An unvalidated runtime configuration value in Apache CouchDB 3.5.2 and below on all platforms allows a CouchDB server admin to run arbitrary shell commands as the CouchDB operating system user.

Users are recommended to upgrade to version 3.5.3, which fixes this issue.

🔗 References (5)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-86471
https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/pj83174r8f8f64odf47fwhozbfjtot0f
https://lists.apache.org/thread/c8p73gswgogtnzvk7hpw8jb8d4mnosdp
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2026/10/20/11
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-885r-pfpm-ch95