Resource exhaustion in MongoDB, MongoDB



Published: 2017-04-14 | Updated: 2020-08-08
Risk Medium
Patch available YES
Number of vulnerabilities 1
CVE-ID CVE-2016-3104
CWE-ID CWE-400
Exploitation vector Network
Public exploit N/A
Vulnerable software
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MongoDB
Server applications / Database software

Vendor MongoDB, Inc.

Security Bulletin

This security bulletin contains one medium risk vulnerability.

1) Resource exhaustion

EUVDB-ID: #VU39179

Risk: Medium

CVSSv3.1: 6.5 [CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H/E:U/RL:O/RC:C]

CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3104

CWE-ID: CWE-400 - Resource exhaustion

Exploit availability: No

Description

The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.

Mitigation

Install update from vendor's website.

Vulnerable software versions

MongoDB: 2.4.0 - 2.6.0

External links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929
http://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496
http://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378


Q & A

Can this vulnerability be exploited remotely?

Yes. This vulnerability can be exploited by a remote non-authenticated attacker via the Internet.

How the attacker can exploit this vulnerability?

The attacker would have to send a specially crafted request to the affected application in order to exploit this vulnerability.

Is there known malware, which exploits this vulnerability?

No. We are not aware of malware exploiting this vulnerability.



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