What is CVE-2017-2665?

CVE-2017-2665 is a medium-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-07-06.

How severe is CVE-2017-2665?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.

Vulnerability in MongoDB

CVE-2017-2665

The skyring-setup command creates random password for mongodb skyring database but it writes password in plain text to /etc/skyring/skyring.conf file which is owned by root but read by local user. Any local user who has access to system running skyring service will be able to get password in plain text.

Published 2018-07-06 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 4.8 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:L.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.003 (23.3th percentile), scored 2026-09-30.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 23rd percentile — 23.3% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.003 · change: 0.000

Affected products

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-522 — Insufficiently Protected Credentials

References

www.securityfocus.com/bid/97612 (VDB Entry, Third Party Advisory, vdb-entry)
bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi (Third Party Advisory, Issue Tracking)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2017-2665?: CVE-2017-2665 is a medium-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Insufficiently Protected Credentials. CVSS score: 4.8/10. Published 2018-07-06.
How severe is CVE-2017-2665?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 4.8 out of 10.