CVE-2018-20802

Post-auth queries on compound index may crash mongod

State: Published
Severity: 6.5 Medium
Published: Nov 23, 2020
Updated: Sep 17, 2024
Reserved: Mar 15, 2019

Description

A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries with compound indexes affecting QueryPlanner. This issue affects MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.9 and MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.3.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H	mongodb

Weaknesses

CWE-394 Unexpected Status Code or Return Value

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MongoDB ServerMongoDB Inc.	3.6 to before 3.6.9Affected 4.0 to before 4.0.3Affected

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-36993

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