CVE-2012-6619

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 3.9% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2014-03-06 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-20

Description

The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Affected products

MongoDB: through 2.3.1; 1.2.0, 1.4.0, 1.6.0, 1.8.0, 2.0.0, 2.0.1 (+16)

References

http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/08/9
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049748
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7769
http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13

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