Exploitation Summary
CVE-2020-24391 has a Nuclei detection template available — see the Nuclei card below for the Shodan/FOFA recon queries.
Description
mongo-express before 1.0.0 offers support for certain advanced syntax but implements this in an unsafe way. NOTE: this may overlap CVE-2019-10769.
Nuclei Templates (1)
Mongo-Express - Remote Code Execution
CRITICALby leovalcante
Shodan:
http.title:"mongo express"
FOFA:
title="mongo express"
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Patch, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/commit/3a26b079e7821e0e209c3ee0cc2ae15ad467b91a
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://github.com/mongodb-js/query-parser/issues/16
Scores
CVSS v3
9.8
EPSS
0.7509
EPSS Percentile
99.4%
Attack Vector
NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details
Status
published
Products (2)
mongo-express_project/mongo-express
< 0.54.0
npm/mongodb-query-parser
0 - 2.0.0npm
Published
Mar 30, 2021
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026