Input validation error in MongoDB and Fedora - CVE-2015-1609
Published: March 30, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020
Vulnerability identifier: #VU40860
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 6.9 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1609
CWE-ID: CWE-20
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote non-authenticated attacker to perform service disruption.
MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.
Affected software
MongoDB
Fedora
Gentoo Linux
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
mongodb
Fedora
Gentoo Linux
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC)
mongodb
How to mitigate CVE-2015-1609
Install update from vendor's website.
Guardium Data Security Center (GDSC) - update to 3.6.1
mongodb - addressed in versions 2.4.13-1.el6, 2.4.13-1.fc21, 2.6.8-1.fc22, 2.6.9-1.el7
mongodb - addressed in versions 2.4.13-1.el6, 2.4.13-1.fc21, 2.6.8-1.fc22, 2.6.9-1.el7
External References
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152493.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153690.html
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034466
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPC3
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264
- https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13