Vulnerability Report

CVE-2017-14227

Title: Mongodb Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2017-14227.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Sep 09, 2017

Modified Date May 13, 2026

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 7.5 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

1.38%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2017-14227: In MongoDB libbson 1.7.0, the bson_iter_codewscope function in bson-iter.c miscalculates a bson_utf8_validate length argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read in the bson_utf8_validate function in bson-utf8.c), as demonstrated by bson-to-json.c.

Impacted Vendors

mongodb 1

anynines 1

Reference Links

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100825 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489355 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489356 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489362 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/100825 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489355 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489356 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1489362 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html

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