PT-2015-1052 · Mongodb · Mongodb

Published 2015-02-25 · Updated 2026-02-25 · CVE-2015-1609

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 prior to 2.4.13 MongoDB versions 2.6.x prior to 2.6.8

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request. This can be exploited by sending a specially formed string in the UTF-8 format, leading to a denial of service.

Recommendations For MongoDB versions prior to 2.4.13, update to version 2.4.13 or later. For MongoDB versions 2.6.x prior to 2.6.8, update to version 2.6.8 or later.

Fix

DoS

RCE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-20

Related Identifiers

BDU:2015-09907

CVE-2015-1609

MGASA-2015-0130

USN-8064-1

Affected Products

Mongodb

References · 19

• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8064-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1609 · Vendor Advisory
• http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-1609 · Security Note
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/152493.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/MGASA-2015-0130 · Vendor Advisory
• https://advisories.mageia.org/MGASA-2015-0130.html · Security Note
• https://bdu.fstec.ru/vul/2015-09907 · Security Note
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2015-1609 · Security Note
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153690.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2015-1609 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security.gentoo.org/glsa/201611-13 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-March/153690.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2015-1609 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-8064-1 · Vendor Advisory