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MongoDB: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2018-20802)

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MongoDB: Unspecified Security Vulnerability (CVE-2018-20802)

Severity
4
CVSS
(AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P)
Published
11/23/2020
Created
12/02/2020
Added
12/01/2020
Modified
12/01/2020

Description

A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries with compound indexes affecting QueryPlanner. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.9, v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.3.

Solution(s)

  • mongodb-upgrade-3_6_9
  • mongodb-upgrade-4_0_3

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