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Fencer Vulns
medium 5.4

CVE-2021-32036 json

Denial of Service and Data Integrity vulnerability in features command

published 2022-02-04 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-mongodb-2021-32036 , EUVD-2021-18902

cvss
5.4
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
1.0%
EPSS 1.0% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 64%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

An authenticated user without any specific authorizations may be able to repeatedly invoke the features command where at a high volume may lead to resource depletion or generate high lock contention. This may result in denial of service and in rare cases could result in id field collisions. This issue affects MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to and including 5.0.3; MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.9; MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to and including 4.2.16 and MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to and including 4.0.28

Patch / fix

  • bitnami mongodb 4.2.18, 4.4.10, 5.0.4
  • mongodb mongodb 4.2.18, 4.4.10, 5.0.4

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2021-32036 updated cvss 5.4

mongodb: Repeatedly invoking the features command at a high volume may lead to resource depletion

  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, noobaa-core-container Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) mongodb, mongodb-server Red Hat Satellite 6 mongodb, libmongodb, mongodb-server Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud Providers mongodb
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

cisa ICSA-26-218-01 updated cvss 7.1

ABB Ability Zenon

  • ABB Ability Zenon /all IIoT services with MongoDB 4.2
    affected: mitigation

Facts from CISA's republication of the vendor's own advisory (CSAF); the linked advisory is the authoritative source. CISA notification · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
2 y ago

Exploit prediction

1.04% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 64% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:L
NVD 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:P/A:P
OSV 3.1 7.1 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami mongodb
>=2.0.0, <4.2.18
>=4.4.0, <4.4.10
>=5.0.0, <5.0.4
4.2.18
4.4.10
5.0.4

Affected products

  • MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Vulns keeps one entry per vulnerability: the CVE id wins, then GHSA, and records that alias each other are merged, except that two CVEs always keep separate entries. The same data is available as JSON.