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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:59

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

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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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

CWE

CWE-182 - Collapse of Data into Unsafe Value

Assigner

mongodb

References

URL

Tags

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-45472

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	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)

Credits

Discovered by Tony Yesudas.

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Sightings

Author	Source	Type	Date

Nomenclature

Seen: The vulnerability was mentioned, discussed, or observed by the user.
Confirmed: The vulnerability has been validated from an analyst's perspective.
Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

CVE-2020-7921 (GCVE-0-2020-7921)

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