Directory traversal vulnerability in the partition2 function in mochiweb_util.erl in MochiWeb before 2.4.0, as used 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 read arbitrary files via a ..\ (dot dot backslash) in the default URI.
Apache CouchDB versions up to and including 1.0.3, 1.1.1, and 1.2.0 are vulnerable to an information disclosure vulnerability via unescaped backslashes in URLs on Windows.