PT-2016-6955 · Mongodb · Mongodb

Martin Prpič · Published 2016-10-03 · Updated 2026-02-25 · CVE-2016-6494

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MongoDB (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue concerns the client in MongoDB, where world-readable permissions are used on .dbshell history files. This could allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Information Disclosure

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-200

Related Identifiers

CVE-2016-6494

DLA-588-1

USN-8064-1

Affected Products

Mongodb

References · 17

• https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0 · Patch
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6494 · Security Note
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2018-20802 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/USN-8064-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-8064-1 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-6494 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2016-6494 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-6494 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2016-6494 · Vendor Advisory
• https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5MCE2ZLFBNOK3TTWSTXZJQGZVP4EEJDL · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832908 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362553 · Note
• https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-6494 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/4 · Note
• http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/8 · Note