CVE-2012-6619
MEDIUM · CVSS 6.4EPSS 3.9%EU EUVD
The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 6.4 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-20
- EPSS score
- 3.9% (90th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2012-6465)
- Published
- March 6, 2014
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2012-6465 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 6, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
- mongodb / mongodb
References
- http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html(Exploit)
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/08/9
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049748
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7769(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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