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MongoDB Driver may publish events containing authentication-related data

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Aug 29, 2023 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 9, 2024

Package

swift github.com/mongodb/mongo-swift-driver (Swift)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0, < 1.1.1

Patched versions

1.1.1
npm mongodb (npm)
>= 3.6.0, < 3.6.10
>= 4.0.0, < 4.17.0
>= 5.0.0, < 5.8.0
3.6.10
4.17.0
5.8.0
composer mongodb/mongodb (Composer)
>= 1.0.0, < 1.9.2
1.9.2

Description

Some MongoDB Drivers may erroneously publish events containing authentication-related data to a command listener configured by an application. The published events may contain security-sensitive data when specific authentication-related commands are executed.

Without due care, an application may inadvertently expose this sensitive information, e.g., by writing it to a log file. This issue only arises if an application enables the command listener feature (this is not enabled by default).

This issue affects the MongoDB C Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.17.7, MongoDB PHP Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.9.2, MongoDB Swift Driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.1.1, MongoDB Node.js Driver 3.6 prior to 3.6.10, MongoDB Node.js Driver 4.0 prior to 4.17.0 and MongoDB Node.js Driver 5.0 prior to 5.8.0. This issue also affects users of the MongoDB C++ Driver dependent on the C driver 1.0.0 prior to 1.17.7 (C++ driver prior to 3.7.0).

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 29, 2023
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Aug 29, 2023
Reviewed Aug 30, 2023
Last updated Feb 9, 2024

Severity

Moderate

CVSS overall score

This score calculates overall vulnerability severity from 0 to 10 and is based on the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS).
/ 10

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None

CVSS v3 base metrics

Attack vector: More severe the more the remote (logically and physically) an attacker can be in order to exploit the vulnerability.
Attack complexity: More severe for the least complex attacks.
Privileges required: More severe if no privileges are required.
User interaction: More severe when no user interaction is required.
Scope: More severe when a scope change occurs, e.g. one vulnerable component impacts resources in components beyond its security scope.
Confidentiality: More severe when loss of data confidentiality is highest, measuring the level of data access available to an unauthorized user.
Integrity: More severe when loss of data integrity is the highest, measuring the consequence of data modification possible by an unauthorized user.
Availability: More severe when the loss of impacted component availability is highest.
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

EPSS score

0.204%
(58th percentile)

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-32050

GHSA ID

GHSA-vxvm-qww3-2fh7

Source code

No known source code
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