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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:59

Modified

2026-09-10 15:46

Summary

Administrative action may disable enforcement of per-user IP whitelisting

Details

Improper serialization of internal state in the authorization subsystem in MongoDB Server's authorization subsystem permits a user with valid credentials to bypass IP whitelisting protection mechanisms following administrative action. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.3; MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.15; MongoDB Server v4.3 versions prior to 4.3.3and MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.18.

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  "modified": "2026-09-10T15:46:03.895Z",
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CVE-2020-7921 (GCVE-0-2020-7921)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-05-06 14:55 – Updated: 2024-11-18 17:30

Title

Administrative action may disable enforcement of per-user IP whitelisting

Summary

Severity

4.6 (Medium)


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

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2024-11-18 17:30 UTC

CWE

CWE-182 - Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value

Assigner

mongodb mitre root

References

1 reference

URL	Tags
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-45472	x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

1 product

Vendor	Product	Version
MongoDB Inc.	MongoDB Server	Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.3 (custom) Affected: 4.0 , < 4.0.15 (custom) Affected: 3.6 , < 3.6.18 (custom) Affected: 4.3 , < 4.3.3 (custom)

Date Public

2020-05-06 11:00

Credits

Discovered by Tony Yesudas.

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