CVE-2013-3969

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 10.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2013-10-01 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The find prototype in scripting/engine_v8.h in MongoDB 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid RefDB object.

Affected products

MongoDB: 2.4.0, 2.4.1, 2.4.2, 2.4.3, 2.4.4

References

http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/
http://secunia.com/advisories/54170
http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878
http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/
http://secunia.com/advisories/54170
http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878

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