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CVE-2015-1609

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 2.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2015-03-30 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-20

Description

MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.

Affected products

• Fedoraproject Fedora: 21
• MongoDB: through 2.4.12; 2.6.0, 2.6.1, 2.6.2, 2.6.3, 2.6.4, 2.6.5 (+2)

References

• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152493.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153690.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034466
• http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPC3
• https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152493.html
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153690.html
• http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1034466
• http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPC3
• https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13

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