What is CVE-2021-32037?

CVE-2021-32037 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mongodb, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-11-24.

How severe is CVE-2021-32037?

Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.

Vulnerability in Mongodb

CVE-2021-32037

An authorized user may trigger an invariant which may result in denial of service or server exit if a relevant aggregation request is sent to a shard. Usually, the requests are sent via mongos and special privileges are required in order to know the address of the shards and to log in to the shards of an auth enabled environment. This issue affects MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to and including 5.0.2.

EPSS: 0.012 (64.5th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 6.5 (Medium). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

Affected products

Mongodb
Mongodb Inc. Server — versions 5.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

CWE-617 — Reachable Assertion

References

cna@mongodb.com (x_refsource_MISC, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2021-32037?: CVE-2021-32037 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Mongodb, classified under Reachable Assertion. CVSS score: 6.5/10. Published 2021-11-24.
How severe is CVE-2021-32037?: Medium severity. CVSS v3 base score is 6.5 out of 10.