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NOTICE UPDATED - April, 25th 2024

NIST has updated the NVD program announcement page with additional information regarding recent concerns and the temporary delays in enrichment efforts.

CVE-2024-21506 Detail

Description

Versions of the package pymongo before 4.6.3 are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the bson module. Using the crafted payload the attacker could force the parser to deserialize unmanaged memory. The parser tries to interpret bytes next to buffer and throws an exception with string. If the following bytes are not printable UTF-8 the parser throws an exception with a single byte.


Severity



CVSS 3.x Severity and Metrics:

NIST CVSS score
NIST: NVD
Base Score:  N/A
NVD assessment not yet provided.

Nist CVSS score does not match with CNA score
CNA:  Snyk
Base Score:  5.2 MEDIUM
Vector:  CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L


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Hyperlink Resource
https://gist.github.com/keltecc/62a7c2bf74a997d0a7b48a0ff3853a03
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver/commit/56b6b6dbc267d365d97c037082369dabf37405d2
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYMONGO-6370597

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-125 Out-of-bounds Read Contributor acceptance level Snyk  

Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2024-21506
NVD Published Date:
04/06/2024
NVD Last Modified:
04/08/2024
Source:
Snyk