CVE-2021-32040

Description

It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.28, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.4 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.16. Workaround: >= v4.2.16 users and all v4.4 users can add the --setParameter internalPipelineLengthLimit=50 instead of the default 1000 to mongod at startup to prevent a crash.

Weakness classification

• CWE-121: Stack-based Buffer Overflow
• CWE-787: Out-of-bounds Write

Primary references

• cna@mongodb.com — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cna@mongodb.com — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cna@mongodb.com — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• cna@mongodb.com — Third Party Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Issue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
• af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 — Third Party Advisory