SB2017041409 - Resource exhaustion in MongoDB, MongoDB
Published: April 14, 2017 Updated: August 8, 2020
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017041409
Severity
Medium
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Resource exhaustion (CVE-ID: CVE-2016-3104)
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.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.