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Fencer Vulns
medium 6.5

CVE-2022-24272 json

MongoDB Server (mongod) may crash in response to unexpected requests

published 2022-04-21 4 y ago modified 2026-09-08 2 mo ago also BIT-mongodb-2022-24272 , EUVD-2022-29179

cvss
6.5
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 may trigger an invariant assertion during command dispatch due to incorrect validation on the $external database. This may result in mongod denial of service or server crash. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v5.0 versions, prior to and including v5.0.6.

Patch / fix

  • bitnami mongodb 5.0.7

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-2022-24272 updated cvss 6.5

mongodb: authenticated user may trigger an invariant assertion during command dispatch due to incorrect validation on the $external database

  • Red Hat Openshift Container Storage 4 ocs4/mcg-core-rhel8
    affected: no fix planned “Out of support scope”
  • Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud Providers mongodb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Openshift Data Foundation 4 odf4/mcg-core-rhel9, noobaa-core-container Red Hat Satellite 6 mongodb, libmongodb, mongodb-server
    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

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 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 4.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:S/C:N/I:N/A:P
OSV 3.1 6.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
bitnami mongodb
>=5.0.0, <5.0.7
5.0.7

Affected products

  • MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server

Classification

Weakness
Technology feeds

References

Sources

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