CVE-2016-3104: MongoDB

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 2.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.

Affected products

• MongoDB MongoDB: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.6.0 only

Published 2017-04-14. Last modified 2026-06-17.