CVE-2021-20333: medium-severity vulnerability in MongoDB Server
Server log entry spoofing via newline injection
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13Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 5.3epss 1.3%
Sending specially crafted commands to a MongoDB Server may result in artificial log entries being generated or for log entries to be split. This issue affects MongoDB Server v3.6 versions prior to 3.6.20; MongoDB Server v4.0 versions prior to 4.0.21 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.10.
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:N
Affected products
MongoDB Inc. · MongoDB ServerRelated CVEs — MongoDB Server
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