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Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in MongoDB Rust Driver

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published May 24, 2022 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Mar 16, 2023

Package

cargo mongodb (Rust)

Affected versions

>= 1.0.0, <= 2.0.0-alpha1

Patched versions

2.0.0-beta

Description

Specific MongoDB Rust Driver versions can include credentials used by the connection pool to authenticate connections in the monitoring event that is emitted when the pool is created. The user's logging infrastructure could then potentially ingest these events and unexpectedly leak the credentials. Note that such monitoring is not enabled by default.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Aug 2, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database May 24, 2022
Reviewed Jun 17, 2022
Last updated Mar 16, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

Attack vector
Local
Attack complexity
Low
Privileges required
High
User interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
None
Availability
None
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-20332

GHSA ID

GHSA-4rjr-3gj2-5crq

Source code

Credits

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