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CVE-2015-1609
MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON…
- 5.0MediumCVSS base score
- 2.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 14% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
MongoDB before 2.4.13 and 2.6.x before 2.6.8 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via a crafted UTF-8 string in a BSON request.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 43 days later
· 43 days later
Published
- 9 years later
· 9 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | Medium5.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.8% · top 14% of all CVEs (9 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: Medium 5.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
6
- FEDORA-2015-4003 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- GLSA-201611-13 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_GENTOOx_transferred
- http://www.splunk.com/view/SP-CAAAPC3 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 1034466 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- FEDORA-2015-4197 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORAx_transferred
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-17264 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2015-1740 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2015-1609)Record last updated .