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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:58

Modified

2026-03-20 09:47

Summary

Denial of Service when processing malformed Role names

Details

Incorrect validation of user input in the role name parser may lead to use of uninitialized memory allowing an unauthenticated attacker to use a specially crafted request to cause a denial of service. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.0; MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.9.

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CVE-2020-7925 (GCVE-0-2020-7925)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-11-23 14:50 – Updated: 2024-09-17 00:20

Title

Denial of Service when processing malformed Role names

Summary

Severity ?

7.5 (High)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CWE

CWE-475 - Undefined Behavior for Input to API

Assigner

mongodb

References

URL

Tags

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-49142

x_refsource_CONFIRM

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	MongoDB Inc.	MongoDB Server	Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.9 (custom) Affected: 4.4 , < 4.4.0-rc12 (custom)

Date Public ?

2020-11-30 00:00

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CVE-2020-7925 (GCVE-0-2020-7925)

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