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medium 5.3

CVE-2019-2389 json

Process termination via PID file manipulation

published 7y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2019-12031

cvss
5.3
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.3%
EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 23%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

Incorrect scoping of kill operations in MongoDB Server's packaged SysV init scripts allow users with write access to the PID file to insert arbitrary PIDs to be killed when the root user stops the MongoDB process via SysV init. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.11; MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.14; MongoDB Server v3.4 versions prior to 3.4.22.

Patch / fix

  • MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server 3.4.22, 3.6.14, 4.0.11

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red hat product security vex CVE-2019-2389 updated cvss 4.2

mongodb: Incorrect scoping in shipped sysV scripts allows arbitrary PID insertion to kill

  • Red Hat Software Collections rh-mongodb34-mongodb, rh-mongodb34-mongodb-test, rh-mongodb34-mongodb-server, rh-mongodb34-mongodb-syspaths, rh-mongodb34-mongodb-server-syspaths
    affected: no fix planned “Will not fix”
  • Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) mongodb, mongodb-server Red Hat Software Collections rh-mongodb36-mongodb, rh-mongodb36-mongodb-test, rh-mongodb36-mongodb-server, rh-mongodb36-mongodb-syspaths, rh-mongodb36-mongodb-server-syspaths Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud Providers mongodb
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

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

0.30% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 23% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 5.3 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 3.1 4.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
NVD 2.0 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Affected products

  • MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-732 Incorrect Permission Assignment for Critical Resource
  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation
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