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)

EPSS: 0.025 (83.0th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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.

Affected products

Mongodb — versions 2.4.0, 2.6.0
N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-400 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption

References

secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)
secalert@redhat.com (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
secalert@redhat.com (x_refsource_CONFIRM, 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.