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ubuntu-cve-2014-3971

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

Published

2014-12-25 11:59

Modified

2025-07-16 04:50

Summary

Details

The CmdAuthenticate::_authenticateX509 function in db/commands/authentication_commands.cpp in mongod in MongoDB 2.6.x before 2.6.2 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (daemon crash) by attempting authentication with an invalid X.509 client certificate.

Severity

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2014-3971	REPORT
	https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-13753	REPORT
	https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/c151e0660…	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2014-3971	REPORT

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  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:43:02Z"
}

CVE-2014-3971 (GCVE-0-2014-3971)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2014-12-25 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 10:57

Summary

Severity

No CVSS data available.

CWE

Assigner

mitre

References

2 references

URL	Tags
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/c151e0660…	x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-13753	x_refsource_CONFIRM

Date Public

2014-04-29 00:00

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Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu

CVE-2014-3971 (GCVE-0-2014-3971)

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