CVE-2017-2665: MongoDB

High severity, CVSS 7.0. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The skyring-setup command creates random password for mongodb skyring database but it writes password in plain text to /etc/skyring/skyring.conf file which is owned by root but read by local user. Any local user who has access to system running skyring service will be able to get password in plain text.

Affected products

• MongoDB MongoDB: affected versions not specified
• Red Hat Storage Console: version 2.0 only

Published 2018-07-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.