CVE-2013-2132

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-08-15 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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."

Affected products

Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 12.04, 12.10, 13.04
MongoDB: through 2.5.1; 1.2.0, 1.4.0, 1.6.0, 1.8.0, 2.0.0, 2.2.0 (+7)
Opensuse: 12.3

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710597
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00180.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/447
http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-1897-1
http://www.debian.org/security/2013/dsa-2705
http://www.osvdb.org/93804
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/60252
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/a060c15ef87e0f0e72974c7c0e57fe811bbd06a2
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/PYTHON-532
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=710597
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-updates/2013-06/msg00180.html
http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2013/q2/447

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