SB2015060401 - Denial of service in Mongo BSON
Published: June 4, 2015 Updated: March 16, 2018
Security Bulletin ID
SB2015060401
Severity
High
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Remote access
Highest impact
Data manipulation
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Improper input validation (CVE-ID: CVE-2015-4412)
The vulnerability allows a remote unauthenticated attacker to cause DoS condition or inject arbitrary data on the target system.The weakness exists in the legal? function due to insufficient validation of user-supplied input. A remote attacker can submit a specially crafted string, cause the service to crash or inject arbitrary data.
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.