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high 7.5

CVE-2016-3104 json

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and proc…

published 2017-04-14 9 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2016-4159

cvss
7.5
version 3.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.5%
EPSS 2.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 84%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.

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-2016-3104 updated cvss 5.0

mongodb: Unauthenticated remote DoS via memory exhaustion

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) mongodb Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) mongodb Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 7 (Kilo) mongodb, mongodb-test, mongodb-server Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2 mongodb, mongodb-server Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 mongodb Red Hat OpenStack Platform 8 (Liberty) mongodb, mongodb-server
    +2 more products
    Red Hat Satellite 6 mongodb, libmongodb, mongodb-server Red Hat Software Collections rh-mongodb26-mongodb, rh-mongodb32-mongodb, rh-mongodb30upg-mongodb, rh-mongodb26-mongodb-test, rh-mongodb32-mongodb-test, rh-mongodb26-mongodb-server, +2 more
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Storage Console 2 mongodb
    affected: no fix available
  • Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager mongodb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”

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

2.49% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 84% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 3.0 7.5 CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
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.