MongoDB Compass 1.42.0 Unvalidated Input Data Disclosure
CVE-2024-3371 Published on April 24, 2024
Insufficient validation of external input in Compass may enable MITM attacks
MongoDB Compass may accept and use insufficiently validated input from an untrusted external source. This may cause unintended application behavior, including data disclosure and enabling attackers to impersonate users. This issue affects MongoDB Compass versions 1.35.0 to 1.42.0.
Vulnerability Analysis
CVE-2024-3371 can be exploited with network access, and requires small amount of user privileges. This vulnerability is consided to have a high level of attack complexity. The potential impact of an exploit of this vulnerability is considered to have a high impact on confidentiality and integrity, and a small impact on availability.
Weakness Type
Trust of System Event Data
Security based on event locations are insecure and can be spoofed. Events are a messaging system which may provide control data to programs listening for events. Events often do not have any type of authentication framework to allow them to be verified from a trusted source. Any application, in Windows, on a given desktop can send a message to any window on the same desktop. There is no authentication framework for these messages. Therefore, any message can be used to manipulate any process on the desktop if the process does not check the validity and safeness of those messages.
Products Associated with CVE-2024-3371
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Affected Versions
MongoDB Inc MongoDB Compass:- Version 1.35.0, <= 1.42.0 is affected.
Exploit Probability
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