VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2012-6619

medium
Published 2014-03-06 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
6.4

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.6
mongodb mongodbmongodb{"endIncluding":"2.3.1"}
mongodb mongodbmongodb1.2.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb1.4.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb1.6.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb1.8.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.1
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.2
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.3
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.4
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.5
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.7
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.0.8
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.0
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.1
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.2
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.3
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.4
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.5
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.6
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.2.7
mongodb mongodbmongodb2.3.0

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.