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Denial of Service (DoS) in mongo-express

Moderate severity GitHub Reviewed Published Oct 6, 2021 to the GitHub Advisory Database • Updated Feb 1, 2023

Package

npm mongo-express (npm)

Affected versions

<= 0.54.0

Patched versions

None

Description

All versions of package mongo-express are vulnerable to Denial of Service (DoS) when exporting an empty collection as CSV, due to an unhandled exception, leading to a crash.

References

Published by the National Vulnerability Database Apr 13, 2021
Reviewed Oct 6, 2021
Published to the GitHub Advisory Database Oct 6, 2021
Last updated Feb 1, 2023

Severity

Moderate
4.4
/ 10

CVSS base metrics

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

Weaknesses

CVE ID

CVE-2021-23372

GHSA ID

GHSA-m2r3-8492-vx59

Source code

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