VIR Vulnerability Intelligence Relay

CVE-2016-6494

medium
Published 2016-10-03 · Modified 2026-05-06
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CVSS v3
5.5
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N
CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
5.5

Description

The client in MongoDB uses world-readable permissions on .dbshell history files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
55%
Patch ETA
—

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 with source_tier=community-verified.

OS impact
OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
fedora fedora25affected

Application impact
VendorProductVersionsFixed
mongodb mongodbmongodb{"endExcluding":"3.0.15"}3.0.15
mongodb mongodbmongodb{"startIncluding":"3.2","endExcluding":"3.2.14"}3.2.14
mongodb mongodbmongodb{"startIncluding":"3.3","endExcluding":"3.3.14"}3.3.14

References

CWEs

CWE-200

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

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