MongoDB NoSQL Database
Products by MongoDB Sorted by Most Security Vulnerabilities since 2018
Known Exploited MongoDB Vulnerabilities
The following MongoDB vulnerabilities have been marked by CISA as Known to be Exploited by threat actors.
| Title | Description | Added |
|---|---|---|
| MongoDB mongo-express Remote Code Execution Vulnerability | mongo-express before 0.54.0 is vulnerable to Remote Code Execution via endpoints that uses the `toBSON` method. CVE-2019-10758 | December 10, 2021 |
By the Year
In 2023 there have been 1 vulnerability in MongoDB with an average score of 7.2 out of ten. Last year MongoDB had 4 security vulnerabilities published. Right now, MongoDB is on track to have less security vulnerabilities in 2023 than it did last year. However, the average CVE base score of the vulnerabilities in 2023 is greater by 0.55.
| Year | Vulnerabilities | Average Score |
|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 1 | 7.20 |
| 2022 | 4 | 6.65 |
| 2021 | 13 | 5.90 |
| 2020 | 10 | 6.60 |
| 2019 | 2 | 5.65 |
| 2018 | 2 | 7.80 |
It may take a day or so for new MongoDB vulnerabilities to show up in the stats or in the list of recent security vulnerabilties. Additionally vulnerabilities may be tagged under a different product or component name.
Recent MongoDB Security Vulnerabilities
Under very specific circumstances (see Required configuration section below), a privileged user is able to cause arbitrary code to be executed
CVE-2022-48282
7.2 - High
- February 21, 2023
Under very specific circumstances (see Required configuration section below), a privileged user is able to cause arbitrary code to be executed which may cause further disruption to services. This is specific to applications written in C#. This affects all MongoDB .NET/C# Driver versions prior to and including v2.18.0
Marshaling, Unmarshaling
An authenticated user may trigger an invariant assertion during command dispatch due to incorrect validation on the $external database
CVE-2022-24272
6.5 - Medium
- April 21, 2022
An authenticated user may trigger an invariant assertion during command dispatch due to incorrect validation on the $external database. This may result in mongod denial of service or server crash. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v5.0 versions, prior to and including v5.0.6.
assertion failure
It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator
CVE-2021-32040
7.5 - High
- April 12, 2022
It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB versions prior to 5.0.4, 4.4.11, 4.2.16.
Memory Corruption
An authenticated user without any specific authorizations may be able to repeatedly invoke the features command where at a high volume may lead to resource depletion or generate high lock contention
CVE-2021-32036
7.1 - High
- February 04, 2022
An authenticated user without any specific authorizations may be able to repeatedly invoke the features command where at a high volume may lead to resource depletion or generate high lock contention. This may result in denial of service and in rare cases could result in id field collisions.
Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Users with appropriate file access may be able to access unencrypted user credentials saved by MongoDB Extension for VS Code in a binary file
CVE-2021-32039
5.5 - Medium
- January 20, 2022
Users with appropriate file access may be able to access unencrypted user credentials saved by MongoDB Extension for VS Code in a binary file. These credentials may be used by malicious attackers to perform unauthorized actions. This vulnerability affects all MongoDB Extension for VS Code including and prior to version 0.7.0
Insufficiently Protected Credentials
An attacker with basic CRUD permissions on a replicated collection
CVE-2021-20330
6.5 - Medium
- December 15, 2021
An attacker with basic CRUD permissions on a replicated collection can run the applyOps command with specially malformed oplog entries, resulting in a potential denial of service on secondaries. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.25; MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.14; MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.6.
Improper Input Validation
An authorized user may trigger an invariant
CVE-2021-32037
6.5 - Medium
- November 24, 2021
An authorized user may trigger an invariant which may result in denial of service or server exit if a relevant aggregation request is sent to a shard. Usually, the requests are sent via mongos and special privileges are required in order to know the address of the shards and to log in to the shards of an auth enabled environment.
assertion failure
Specific MongoDB Rust Driver versions can include credentials used by the connection pool to authenticate connections in the monitoring event
CVE-2021-20332
4.4 - Medium
- August 02, 2021
Specific MongoDB Rust Driver versions can include credentials used by the connection pool to authenticate connections in the monitoring event that is emitted when the pool is created. The user's logging infrastructure could then potentially ingest these events and unexpectedly leak the credentials. Note that such monitoring is not enabled by default.
Sending specially crafted commands to a MongoDB Server may result in artificial log entries being generated or for log entries to be split
CVE-2021-20333
5.3 - Medium
- July 23, 2021
Sending specially crafted commands to a MongoDB Server may result in artificial log entries being generated or for log entries to be split. This issue affects MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.20; MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.21; MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.10;
Output Sanitization
Specific cstrings input may not be properly validated in the MongoDB Go Driver when marshalling Go objects into BSON
CVE-2021-20329
6.5 - Medium
- June 10, 2021
Specific cstrings input may not be properly validated in the MongoDB Go Driver when marshalling Go objects into BSON. A malicious user could use a Go object with specific string to potentially inject additional fields into marshalled documents. This issue affects all MongoDB GO Drivers up to (and including) 1.5.0.
Improper Input Validation
Specific versions of the MongoDB C# Driver may erroneously publish events containing authentication-related data to a command listener configured by an application
CVE-2021-20331
4.9 - Medium
- May 13, 2021
Specific versions of the MongoDB C# Driver may erroneously publish events containing authentication-related data to a command listener configured by an application. The published events may contain security-sensitive data when commands such as "saslStart", "saslContinue", "isMaster", "createUser", and "updateUser" are executed. Without due care, an application may inadvertently expose this authenticated-related information, e.g., by writing it to a log file. This issue only arises if an application enables the command listener feature (this is not enabled by default). This issue affects the MongoDB C# Driver 2.12 <= 2.12.1.
Information Disclosure
A user authorized to performing a specific type of find query may trigger a denial of service
CVE-2021-20326
6.5 - Medium
- April 30, 2021
A user authorized to performing a specific type of find query may trigger a denial of service. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.4.
Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
Usage of specific command line parameter in MongoDB Tools
CVE-2020-7924
6.5 - Medium
- April 12, 2021
Usage of specific command line parameter in MongoDB Tools which was originally intended to just skip hostname checks, may result in MongoDB skipping all certificate validation. This may result in accepting invalid certificates.This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Database Tools 3.6 versions later than 3.6.5; 3.6 versions prior to 3.6.21; 4.0 versions prior to 4.0.21; 4.2 versions prior to 4.2.11; 100 versions prior to 100.2.0. MongoDB Inc. Mongomirror 0 versions later than 0.6.0.
Improper Certificate Validation
A user authorized to performing a specific type of query may trigger a denial of service by issuing a generic explain command on a find query
CVE-2018-25004
4.9 - Medium
- March 01, 2021
A user authorized to performing a specific type of query may trigger a denial of service by issuing a generic explain command on a find query. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.6; MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.11.
Improper Input Validation
A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted query contain a type of regex
CVE-2020-7929
6.5 - Medium
- March 01, 2021
A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted query contain a type of regex. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.21 and MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.20.
A specific version of the Node.js mongodb-client-encryption module does not perform correct validation of the KMS servers certificate
CVE-2021-20327
6.8 - Medium
- February 25, 2021
A specific version of the Node.js mongodb-client-encryption module does not perform correct validation of the KMS servers certificate. This vulnerability in combination with a privileged network position active MITM attack could result in interception of traffic between the Node.js driver and the KMS service rendering client-side field level encryption (CSFLE) ineffective. This issue was discovered during internal testing and affects mongodb-client-encryption module version 1.2.0, which was available from 2021-Jan-29 and deprecated in the NPM Registry on 2021-Feb-04. This vulnerability does not impact driver traffic payloads with CSFLE-supported key services from applications residing inside the AWS, GCP, and Azure nework fabrics due to compensating controls in these environments. This issue does not impact driver workloads that dont use Field Level Encryption.
Improper Certificate Validation
Specific versions of the Java driver
CVE-2021-20328
6.8 - Medium
- February 25, 2021
Specific versions of the Java driver that support client-side field level encryption (CSFLE) fail to perform correct host name verification on the KMS servers certificate. This vulnerability in combination with a privileged network position active MITM attack could result in interception of traffic between the Java driver and the KMS service rendering Field Level Encryption ineffective. This issue was discovered during internal testing and affects all versions of the Java driver that support CSFLE. The Java async, Scala, and reactive streams drivers are not impacted. This vulnerability does not impact driver traffic payloads with CSFLE-supported key services originating from applications residing inside the AWS, GCP, and Azure network fabrics due to compensating controls in these environments. This issue does not impact driver workloads that dont use Field Level Encryption.
Improper Certificate Validation
For MongoDB Ops Manager <= 4.2.24 with multiple OM application servers
CVE-2021-20335
4.6 - Medium
- February 11, 2021
For MongoDB Ops Manager <= 4.2.24 with multiple OM application servers, that have SSL turned on for their MongoDB processes, the upgrade to MongoDB Ops Manager <= 4.4.12 triggers a bug where Automation thinks SSL is being turned off, and can disable SSL temporarily for members of the cluster. This issue is temporary and eventually corrects itself after MongoDB Ops Manager instances have finished upgrading to MongoDB Ops Manager 4.4. In addition, customers must be running with clientCertificateMode=OPTIONAL / allowConnectionsWithoutCertificates=true to be impacted*.* Customers upgrading from Ops Manager 4.2.X to 4.2.24 and finally to Ops Manager 4.4.13+ are unaffected by this issue.
Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information
Specially crafted API calls may
CVE-2020-7927
6.5 - Medium
- November 23, 2020
Specially crafted API calls may allow an authenticated user who holds Organization Owner privilege to obtain an API key with Global Role privilege. This issue affects MongoDB Ops Manager v4.2 versions 4.2.0-4.2.17, v4.3 versions 4.3.0-4.3.9 and v4.4 versions 4.4.0-4.4.2.
A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger a read overrun and access arbitrary memory by issuing specially crafted queries
CVE-2020-7928
6.5 - Medium
- November 23, 2020
A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger a read overrun and access arbitrary memory by issuing specially crafted queries. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.1; v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.9; v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.20; v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.20.
A user authorized to perform database queries may cause denial of service by issuing a specially crafted query
CVE-2020-7926
6.5 - Medium
- November 23, 2020
A user authorized to perform database queries may cause denial of service by issuing a specially crafted query which violates an invariant in the server selection subsystem. This issue affects: MongoDB Server version 4.4 prior to 4.4.1. Versions before 4.4 are not affected.
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Incorrect validation of user input in the role name parser may lead to use of uninitialized memory
CVE-2020-7925
7.5 - High
- November 23, 2020
Incorrect validation of user input in the role name parser may lead to use of uninitialized memory allowing an unauthenticated attacker to use a specially crafted request to cause a denial of service. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.0-rc12; v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.9.
Improper Input Validation
A user authorized to perform database queries may cause denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries
CVE-2020-7923
6.5 - Medium
- August 21, 2020
A user authorized to perform database queries may cause denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries, which violate an invariant in the query subsystem's support for geoNear. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.0-rc7; v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.8; v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.19.
Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions
Improper serialization of internal state in the authorization subsystem in MongoDB Server's authorization subsystem permits a user with valid credentials to bypass IP whitelisting protection mechanisms following administrative action
CVE-2020-7921
5.3 - Medium
- May 06, 2020
Improper serialization of internal state in the authorization subsystem in MongoDB Server's authorization subsystem permits a user with valid credentials to bypass IP whitelisting protection mechanisms following administrative action. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server 4.2 versions prior to 4.2.3; 4.0 versions prior to 4.0.15; 4.3 versions prior to 4.3.3; 3.6 versions prior to 3.6.18.
AuthZ
bson before 0.8 incorrectly uses int rather than size_t for many variables, parameters, and return values
CVE-2020-12135
5.5 - Medium
- April 24, 2020
bson before 0.8 incorrectly uses int rather than size_t for many variables, parameters, and return values. In particular, the bson_ensure_space() parameter bytesNeeded could have an integer overflow via properly constructed bson input.
Integer Overflow or Wraparound
X.509 certificates generated by the MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator may
CVE-2020-7922
6.5 - Medium
- April 09, 2020
X.509 certificates generated by the MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator may allow an attacker with access to the Kubernetes cluster improper access to MongoDB instances. Customers who do not use X.509 authentication, and those who do not use the Operator to generate their X.509 certificates are unaffected. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Enterprise Kubernetes Operator version 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 versions prior to 1.2.4, 1.3 versions prior to 1.3.1, 1.2, 1.4 versions prior to 1.4.4.
Improper Certificate Validation
Incorrect parsing of certain JSON input may result in js-bson not correctly serializing BSON
CVE-2019-2391
5.4 - Medium
- March 31, 2020
Incorrect parsing of certain JSON input may result in js-bson not correctly serializing BSON. This may cause unexpected application behaviour including data disclosure.
Marshaling, Unmarshaling
All versions of bson before 1.1.4 are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data
CVE-2020-7610
9.8 - Critical
- March 30, 2020
All versions of bson before 1.1.4 are vulnerable to Deserialization of Untrusted Data. The package will ignore an unknown value for an object's _bsotype, leading to cases where an object is serialized as a document rather than the intended BSON type.
Marshaling, Unmarshaling
Incorrect scoping of kill operations in MongoDB Server's packaged SysV init scripts
CVE-2019-2389
4.2 - Medium
- August 30, 2019
Incorrect scoping of kill operations in MongoDB Server's packaged SysV init scripts allow users with write access to the PID file to insert arbitrary PIDs to be killed when the root user stops the MongoDB process via SysV init. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.11; v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.14; v3.4 versions prior to 3.4.22.
Improper Input Validation
After user deletion in MongoDB Server the improper invalidation of authorization sessions
CVE-2019-2386
7.1 - High
- August 06, 2019
After user deletion in MongoDB Server the improper invalidation of authorization sessions allows an authenticated user's session to persist and become conflated with new accounts, if those accounts reuse the names of deleted ones. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.9; v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.13; v3.4 versions prior to 3.4.22.
AuthZ
_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read
CVE-2018-16790
8.1 - High
- September 10, 2018
_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.
Out-of-bounds Read
The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js
CVE-2018-13863
7.5 - High
- July 10, 2018
The MongoDB bson JavaScript module (also known as js-bson) versions 0.5.0 to 1.0.x before 1.0.5 is vulnerable to a Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) in lib/bson/decimal128.js. The flaw is triggered when the Decimal128.fromString() function is called to parse a long untrusted string.
MongoDB before 2.0.9 and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 does not properly validate requests to the nativeHelper function in SpiderMonkey, which
CVE-2013-1892
- October 01, 2013
MongoDB before 2.0.9 and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 does not properly validate requests to the nativeHelper function in SpiderMonkey, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (invalid memory access and server crash) or execute arbitrary code via a crafted memory address in the first argument.
Improper Input Validation
bson/_cbsonmodule.c in the mongo-python-driver (aka
CVE-2013-2132
- August 15, 2013
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."