Main Vulnerability Database Vulnerabilities #VU40860

Input validation error in Fedora and MongoDB - CVE-2015-1609

Published: March 30, 2015 / Updated: August 9, 2020

Vulnerability identifier: #VU40860

CSH Severity: Medium

CVSS v4.0: 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/E:U/U:Green

CVE-ID: CVE-2015-1609

CWE-ID: CWE-20

Exploitation vector: Remote access

Exploit availability: No public exploit available

Vendor: Fedoraproject
MongoDB, Inc.

Affected software:
Fedora
MongoDB

Detailed vulnerability description

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.

Install update from vendor's website.