CVE-2021-32040

MEDIUM

MongoDB 4.2.0-4.2.15 - Denial of Service via Aggregation Pipeline Stack Overflow

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

Description

It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.28, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.4 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.16. Workaround: >= v4.2.16 users and all v4.4 users can add the --setParameter internalPipelineLengthLimit=50 instead of the default 1000 to mongod at startup to prevent a crash.

References (4)

Core 4
Core References
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-58203
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-59299
Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-60218
Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm
https://security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0005/

Scores

CVSS v3 6.5
EPSS 0.0186
EPSS Percentile 76.6%
Attack Vector NETWORK
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

CISA SSVC

Vulnrichment
Exploitation none
Automatable no
Technical Impact partial

Details

CWE
CWE-121 CWE-787
Status published
Products (1)
mongodb/mongodb 4.2.0 - 4.2.16
Published Apr 12, 2022
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026