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CVE-2015-1609 json

MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON requ…

published 2015-03-30 11 y ago modified 2026-06-17 4 mo ago also EUVD-2015-1740

cvss
5.0
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
2.8%
EPSS 2.8% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 86%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.

Patch / fix

  • mongodb Ubuntu Pro 14.04 LTS 1:2.4.9-1ubuntu2+esm2

ubuntu advisories UBUNTU-CVE-2015-1609

Ubuntu security data © Canonical Ltd., from https://github.com/canonical/ubuntu-security-notices via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

  • v8 satellite capsule 6.1, satellite 6.1 1:3.14.5.10-9.el6sat
  • v8 satellite capsule 6.2, satellite 6.2 1:3.14.5.10-11.el7sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.1, satellite 6.1 2.0-2.el6sat
  • tfm satellite capsule 6.2, satellite 6.2 2.0-2.el7sat
  • ipxe satellite 6.1 20130517-7.1fm.gitc4bce43.el6sat
  • ipxe satellite 6.2 20160127-1.git6366fa7a.el7
  • hiera satellite capsule 6.1, satellite 6.1 1.3.1-2.el6sat
  • hiera satellite capsule 6.2, satellite 6.2 1.3.1-2.el7sat

red hat advisories RHBA-2016:1500

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-2015-1609 updated cvss 5.0

mongodb: DoS due to improper BSON validation

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 5 (Icehouse) mongodb Red Hat Enterprise Linux OpenStack Platform 6 (Juno) mongodb
    affected: no fix available “Fix deferred”
  • Red Hat OpenShift Enterprise 2 mongodb Red Hat OpenStack Platform 4 mongodb Red Hat Software Collections mongodb24-mongodb, mongodb24-libmongodb, mongodb24-mongodb-server Red Hat Subscription Asset Manager mongodb
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat Satellite 6.2 tfm 2.0-2.el6sat, tfm 2.0-2.el7sat, pyserial 2.6-5.el7, hiera 1.3.1-2.el6sat, hiera 1.3.1-2.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, +351 more Red Hat Satellite Capsule 6.2 tfm 2.0-2.el6sat, tfm 2.0-2.el7sat, pyserial 2.6-5.el7, hiera 1.3.1-2.el6sat, hiera 1.3.1-2.el7sat, SOAPpy 0.11.6-17.el7, +173 more
    fixed: vendor fix RHBA-2016:1500

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

2.76% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 86% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 5.0 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
Technology feeds

References

Sources

Fencer Intel 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.