{"id":"CVE-2012-6619","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2012-6619","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:58:02.331Z","title":"The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which…","description":"The default configuration for MongoDB before 2.3.2 does not validate objects, which allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (crash) or read system memory via a crafted BSON object in the column name in an insert command, which triggers a buffer over-read.","published":"2014-03-06T15:55:29.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T23:48:29.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":6.4,"severity":"MEDIUM","vector":"AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P"},"cwe":["CWE-20"],"affected":["mongodb/mongodb"],"epss":{"score":0.03894,"percentile":0.90177,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"low","text":"Lower severity and a low EPSS score (3.89%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own."},"changes":[],"references":[{"url":"http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/2","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/08/9","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049748","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7769","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://blog.ptsecurity.com/2012/11/attacking-mongodb.html","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0230.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2014-0440.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/13","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/07/2","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/01/08/9","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1049748","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-7769","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2012-6619","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}