CVE-2021-32050

Some MongoDB Drivers may publish events containing authentication-related data to a command listener configured by an application

State
Published
Severity
4.2 Medium
Published
Aug 29, 2023
Updated
Nov 3, 2025
Reserved
May 5, 2021

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Description

Some MongoDB Drivers may erroneously publish events containing authentication-related data to a command listener configured by an application. The published events may contain security-sensitive data when specific authentication-related commands are executed.

Without due care, an application may inadvertently expose this sensitive information, e.g., by writing it to a log file. This issue only arises if an application enables the command listener feature (this is not enabled by default).

This issue affects the MongoDB C Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.17.7, MongoDB PHP Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.9.2, MongoDB Swift Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.1.1, MongoDB Node.js Driver 3.6 prior to 3.6.10, MongoDB Node.js Driver 4.0 prior to 4.17.0 and MongoDB Node.js Driver 5.0 prior to 5.8.0. This issue also affects users of the MongoDB C++ Driver dependent on the C driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.17.7 (C++ driver prior to 3.7.0).

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.14.2 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:Nmongodb

Weaknesses

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

Affected Products

ProductVersions
MongoDB C DriverMongoDB Inc
  • 1.0.0 to before 1.17.7Affected
MongoDB C++ DriverMongoDB Inc
  • 3.0.0 to before 3.7.0Affected
MongoDB PHP DriverMongoDB Inc
  • 1.0.0 to before 1.9.2Affected
MongoDB Swift DriverMongoDB Inc
  • 1.0.0 to before 1.1.1Affected
MongoDB Node.js DriverMongoDB Inc
  • 3.6 to before 3.6.10Affected
  • 4.0 to before 4.17.0Affected
  • 5.0 to before 5.8.0Affected

References

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