CVE-2016-3104

HighCVSS 7.5/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

Description

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.5/10CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-400

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378Vendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378Vendor Advisory

Timeline

Published: Apr 14, 2017
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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