vulnerability
MongoDB: Out-of-bounds Write (CVE-2021-32040)
Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
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5 | (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P) | 2022-04-12 | 2022-04-22 | 2024-09-18 |
Description
It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.28, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.4 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.16.
Workaround: >= v4.2.16 users and all v4.4 users can add the --setParameter internalPipelineLengthLimit=50 instead of the default 1000 to mongod at startup to prevent a crash.
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