CVE-2015-1609 Denial of service in n/a
Remote attackers can cause a denial of service in MongoDB by sending a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2015-1609?
CVE-2015-1609 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Fedoraproject Fedora, published on 30 Mar 2015. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2015-1609?
It affects 2 products.
Products include Fedoraproject Fedora, Mongodb Mongodb.
How do I fix CVE-2015-1609?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2015-1609 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2015-1609 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Fedoraproject Fedora
Sources
Also known as GHSA-vpxf-9vr8-jf96, MGASA-2015-0130, MINI-cgx2-55cg-7c7q, MINI-p2hf-p6v4-78qq, SUSE-SU-2015:0751-1, UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1609.