CVE-2012-6619: MongoDB

Medium severity, CVSS 6.4. EPSS: 3.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• MongoDB MongoDB: up to and including 2.3.1; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.8.0 only; version 2.0.0 only; …

Published 2014-03-06. Last modified 2026-06-16.