CVE-2013-1892

medium

Published 2013-10-01 · Modified 2026-04-29

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CVSS v3

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CVSS v4 NEW

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not yet in upstream

VIR risk

7.0

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

20%

Patch ETA

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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Metasploit modules

exploit_linux/misc/mongod_native_helper rank 300

MongoDB nativeHelper.apply Remote Code Execution

Source code queued for fetch — refresh in a moment.

Application impact

Vendor	Product	Versions
mongodb	mongodb	`{"endIncluding":"2.0.8"}`
mongodb	mongodb	`1.2.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`1.4.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`1.6.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`1.8.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.1`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.2`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.3`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.4`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.5`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.6`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.0.7`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.2.0`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.2.1`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.2.2`
mongodb	mongodb	`2.2.3`

References

CWEs

CWE-20

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.