Denial of Service (DoS) Affecting mongodb package, versions [,2.6.0)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
1.09% (85th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MONGODB-2371297
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed15 Aug 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 15 Aug 2013

CVE-2013-2132  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-400  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mongodb to version 2.6.0 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) bson/_cbsonmodule.c in the mongo-python-driver (aka. pymongo) before 2.5.2, as used in MongoDB, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to decoding of an "invalid DBRef."

CVSS Scores

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