CVE-2013-3969
medium
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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VIR risk
6.5
Description
The find prototype in scripting/engine_v8.h in MongoDB 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid RefDB object.
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.
The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.
✚ Propose a mitigation on Community → Mitigations published via the community go through AI scoring + 2 human reviewers + 7-day silent objection window before landing here withsource_tier=community-verified.
References
- http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54170
- http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878
- http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/
- http://secunia.com/advisories/54170
- http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878
CWEs
CWE-399
Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.
Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.