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CVE-2024-21506

Public on 2024-04-06
Modified on 2024-04-09
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
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.4
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 2023 python-pymongo 2024-05-09 17:16 ALAS2023-2024-614

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.4 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv3 5.2 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:L