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Excessive Iteration

CVE-2018-20805

Medium
4/10

Summary

A user authorized to perform database queries may trigger denial of service by issuing specially crafted queries, which perform an $elemMatch This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.5; v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.10. This issue affects: MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server 3.6 versions prior to 3.6.10; 4.0 versions prior to 4.0.5.

  • LOW
  • NETWORK
  • SINGLE
  • NONE
  • NONE
  • PARTIAL

CWE-834 - Excessive Iteration

The software performs an iteration or loop without sufficiently limiting the number of times that the loop is executed.

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Advisory Timeline

  • Published