Vulnerability Report

CVE-2013-3969

Title: Mongodb RCE

DoS

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2013-3969

CWE Category CWE-399

Published Date Oct 01, 2013

Modified Date Jun 16, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 6.5 CVSS v2.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

10.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2013-3969: The find prototype in scripting/engine_v8.h in MongoDB 2.4.0 through 2.4.4 allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (uninitialized pointer dereference and server crash) or possibly execute arbitrary code via an invalid RefDB object.

Impacted Vendors

mongodb 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/ http://secunia.com/advisories/54170 http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878 http://blog.scrt.ch/2013/06/04/mongodb-rce-by-databasespraying/ http://secunia.com/advisories/54170 http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/ http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2013/07/30/10 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9878

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

6.5

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2013-3969 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

Exploit-DB https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/38669

View Code

June 16, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 29, 2026 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

April 11, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

October 01, 2013 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A

Complexity N/A

Privileges N/A

Interaction NONE

CVSS Vector String


                                    AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:P

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.