ubuntu-cve-2012-6619
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2014-03-06 15:55
Modified
2025-07-16 04:50
Summary
Details

The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.

Severity
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
To clipboard 

{
  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb",
            "binary_version": "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-clients",
            "binary_version": "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-dev",
            "binary_version": "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-server",
            "binary_version": "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:14.04:LTS",
        "name": "mongodb",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mongodb@1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2?arch=source\u0026distro=trusty"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:2.4.6-0ubuntu5",
        "1:2.4.6-0ubuntu6",
        "1:2.4.8-1ubuntu1",
        "1:2.4.8-2",
        "1:2.4.9-1",
        "1:2.4.9-1ubuntu1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb",
            "binary_version": "1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-clients",
            "binary_version": "1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-server",
            "binary_version": "1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:16.04:LTS",
        "name": "mongodb",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mongodb@1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=xenial"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:2.6.10-0ubuntu1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": []
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
        "availability": "No subscription required",
        "binaries": [
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-clients",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-clients-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-server",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-server-core",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          },
          {
            "binary_name": "mongodb-server-core-dbgsym",
            "binary_version": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
          }
        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:18.04:LTS",
        "name": "mongodb",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/mongodb@1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1?arch=source\u0026distro=bionic"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "1:3.6.3-0ubuntu1"
            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
      "versions": [
        "1:3.4.7-1",
        "1:3.4.7-1ubuntu1",
        "1:3.4.7-1ubuntu2",
        "1:3.4.7-1ubuntu4",
        "1:3.4.14-3ubuntu1",
        "1:3.4.14-3ubuntu2"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2012-6619",
  "modified": "2025-07-16T04:50:10Z",
  "published": "2014-03-06T15:55:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2012-6619"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/11822"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2012-6619"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2012-6619"
  ],
  "withdrawn": "2025-07-18T16:42:48Z"
}



Log in or create an account to share your comment.




Tags
Taxonomy of the tags.





Forecast uses a logistic model when the trend is rising, or an exponential decay model when the trend is falling. Fitted via linearized least squares.

Sightings

Author Source Type Date Other

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.


Detection rules are retrieved from Rulezet.