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Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb

Published

2024-03-06 10:59

Modified

2025-05-20 10:02

Summary

Specific GeoQuery can cause DoS against MongoDB Server

Details

A user authorized to perform database queries may cause denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries, which violate an invariant in the query subsystem's support for geoNear. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.0-rc7; MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.8 and MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.19.

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CVE-2020-7923 (GCVE-0-2020-7923)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2020-08-21 14:25 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:27

Title

Specific GeoQuery can cause DoS against MongoDB Server

Summary

Severity ?

6.5 (Medium)


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

CWE

CWE-755 - Improper Handling of Exceptional Conditions

Assigner

mongodb

References

URL

Tags

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-47773

x_refsource_MISC

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	MongoDB Inc.	MongoDB Server	Affected: 4.4 , < 4.4.0-rc7 (custom) Affected: 4.2 , < 4.2.8 (custom) Affected: 4.0 , < 4.0.19 (custom)

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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-2020-7923 (GCVE-0-2020-7923)

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