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medium 6.7

CVE-2021-20335 json

SSL may be unexpectedly disabled during upgrade of multiple-server MongoDB Ops Manager

published 5y ago modified 4mo ago also EUVD-2021-7753

cvss
6.7
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.1%
EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 3%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

For MongoDB Ops Manager versions prior to and including 4.2.24 with multiple OM application servers, that have SSL turned on for their MongoDB processes, the upgrade to MongoDB Ops Manager versions prior to and including 4.4.12 triggers a bug where Automation thinks SSL is being turned off, and can disable SSL temporarily for members of the cluster. This issue is temporary and eventually corrects itself after MongoDB Ops Manager instances have finished upgrading to MongoDB Ops Manager 4.4. In addition, customers must be running with clientCertificateMode=OPTIONAL / allowConnectionsWithoutCertificates=true to be impacted*.* Customers upgrading from Ops Manager 4.2.X to 4.2.24 and finally to Ops Manager 4.4.13+ are unaffected by this issue.

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Exploit prediction

0.14% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 3% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-09).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 3.1 6.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
NVD 3.1 4.6 CVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N
NVD 2.0 4.1 AV:A/AC:L/Au:S/C:P/I:P/A:N

Affected products

  • MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Ops Manager

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-319 Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information

References

Sources

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