Vulnerability Report

CVE-2016-3104

Title: Mongodb Denial of Service (DoS)

DoS

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2016-3104.

CWE Category CWE-400

Published Date Apr 14, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.58%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2016-3104: 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.

Impacted Vendors

mongodb 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.5

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

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

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.0

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

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

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns