Denial of service in Mongo BSON
| Risk | High |
| Patch available | YES |
| Number of vulnerabilities | 1 |
| CVE-ID | CVE-2015-4412 |
| CWE-ID | CWE-20 |
| Exploitation vector | Network |
| Public exploit | N/A |
| Vulnerable software Subscribe |
BSON Ruby driver Universal components / Libraries / Libraries used by multiple products |
| Vendor | MongoDB, Inc. |
Security Bulletin
This security bulletin contains one high risk vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation
EUVDB-ID: #VU11131
Risk: Low
CVSSv3.1: 5.7 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4412
CWE-ID:
CWE-20 - Improper input validation
Exploit availability: No
DescriptionThe vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition or inject arbitrary data on the target system.
The weakness exists in the legal? function due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted string, cause the service to crash or inject arbitrary data.
Update to version 3.0.4.
Vulnerable software versionsBSON Ruby driver: 3.0 - 3.0.3
External linkshttp://sakurity.com/blog/2015/06/04/mongo_ruby_regexp.html
Q & A
Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?
Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.
Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?
No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.
