CVE-2022-24272: MongoDB

Medium severity, CVSS 6.5. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

An authenticated user may trigger an invariant assertion during command dispatch due to incorrect validation on the $external database. This may result in mongod denial of service or server crash. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v5.0 versions, prior to and including v5.0.6.

Affected products

• MongoDB MongoDB: from 5.0.0, up to and including 5.0.6

Published 2022-04-21. Last modified 2026-06-17.