What is CVE-2016-3104?

CVE-2016-3104 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-04-14.

How severe is CVE-2016-3104?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in MongoDB

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.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2017-04-14 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.025 (84.0th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 84th percentile — 84.0% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.025 · newest: 0.025 · change: 0.000

Affected products

MongoDB — versions 2.4.0, 2.6.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
www.securityfocus.com/bid/94929 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378 (Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2016-3104?: CVE-2016-3104 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2017-04-14.
How severe is CVE-2016-3104?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.