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MongoDB DoS Vulnerability - Oct17 (Linux)

Information

Severity

Severity

Medium

Family

Family

Databases

CVSSv2 Base

CVSSv2 Base

6.4

CVSSv2 Vector

CVSSv2 Vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P

Solution Type

Solution Type

Vendor Patch

Created

Created

6 years ago

Modified

Modified

5 years ago

Summary

MongoDB is prone to a denial of service vulnerability.

Insight

Insight

MongoDB has a disabled-by-default configuration setting, networkMessageCompressors (aka wire protocol compression), which exposes a vulnerability when enabled that could be exploited by a malicious attacker to deny service or modify memory.

Affected Software

Affected Software

MongoDB version 3.4.x and 3.5.x.

Detection Method

Detection Method

Checks if a vulnerable version is present on the target host.

Solution

Solution

Update to version 3.4.10, 3.6.0-rc0 or later.

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE)