BSON field injection via unchecked cstrings
Published Jun 10, 2021 · Updated Sep 16, 2024
Improper input validation in MongoDB Go Driver 1.0 through 1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to inject BSON fields via crafted Go objects. BSON marshaling accepts cstrings containing null bytes in element keys or regular-expression fields, allowing terminator truncation and insertion of attacker-controlled fields into serialized documents. Exploitation requires authenticated access to an application that marshals attacker-influenced objects; the resulting impact is unauthorized document-field modification rather than code execution or service shutdown.
Summary
What happened
Improper input validation in MongoDB Go Driver 1.0 through 1.5.0 allows remote authenticated users to inject BSON fields via crafted Go objects. BSON marshaling accepts cstrings containing null bytes in element keys or regular-expression fields, allowing terminator truncation and insertion of attacker-controlled fields into serialized documents. Exploitation requires authenticated access to an application that marshals attacker-influenced objects; the resulting impact is unauthorized document-field modification rather than code execution or service shutdown.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2021-20329
- Published
- Jun 10, 2021
- Updated
- Sep 16, 2024
- Vendor
- MongoDB
- Product
- MongoDB Go Driver
- Classifications
- CWE-20, CWE-1287
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
How it unfolded
- Jun 10, 2021CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Sep 16, 2024Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=1.0 <=1.5.0
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