PT-2014-5645 · Mongodb · Mongodb

Published 2014-12-25 · Updated 2014-12-29 · CVE-2014-3971

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

5.0

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MongoDB versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.1

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service by attempting authentication with an invalid X.509 client certificate, leading to a daemon crash. This is due to a problem in the CmdAuthenticate:: authenticateX509 function.

Recommendations For MongoDB versions 2.6.0 through 2.6.1, update to version 2.6.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

CVE-2014-3971

Affected Products

Mongodb

References · 7

• https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-13753 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2014-3971 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2014-3971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3971 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3971 · Vendor Advisory
• https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/c151e0660b9736fe66b224f1129a16871165251b · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-3971 · Note