Bug 1324496 (CVE-2016-3104)

Summary:	CVE-2016-3104 mongodb: Unauthenticated remote DoS via memory exhaustion
Product:	[Other] Security Response	Reporter:	Adam Mariš <amaris>
Component:	vulnerability	Assignee:	Red Hat Product Security <security-response-team>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
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Priority:	medium
Version:	unspecified	CC:	abaron, abhgupta, apevec, bhu, bkearney, cbillett, ccoleman, chrisw, dallan, dmcphers, gkotton, iboverma, jialiu, joelsmith, jokerman, jorton, jross, jschluet, lhh, lmeyer, lpeer, markmc, mcressma, mmaslano, mmccomas, mmccune, nthomas, ohadlevy, rbryant, sclewis, scorneli, security-response-team, sisharma, srevivo, tdecacqu, tiwillia, tlestach, tomckay, williams
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Description Adam Mariš 2016-04-06 13:27:16 UTC

It was reported that it is possible for remote unauthenticated attackers to cause the host to kill mongoDB service due to memory exhaustion. This issue can be triggered by making multiple database creation requests. Even if authentication fails, the requested database is created in memory. Eventually, the host runs out of memory and kills Mongo service resulting in a denial of service. After service restart, all created databases are deleted.

The issue was identified in versions 2.4 and 2.6. The issue was found to be not reproducible on 3.0.11 and 3.2.4.

External references:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378

Comment 1 Adam Mariš 2016-04-06 13:27:42 UTC

Acknowledgments:

Name: Simon Budail Essard, Philippe Jacquot

Comment 6 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-08 06:52:00 UTC

Public via:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378

Comment 8 Huzaifa S. Sidhpurwala 2016-12-08 07:55:23 UTC

Note on exploitation on mongodb-2.6:

This issue does not affect all MongoDB 2.6 installations; it only
affects MongoDB 2.6 installations in circumstances where they first had a
MongoDB 2.4 installation with authentication enabled, upgraded to 2.6, and
did not complete a full upgrade (i.e., did not migrate the
authuser-schema). More details are provided in the above SERVER ticket.

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378