CVE-2016-3104

Publication date 14 April 2017

Last updated 12 February 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mongodb	25.10 questing	Not in release
	25.04 plucky	Not in release
	24.10 oracular	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	23.10 mantic	Not in release
	23.04 lunar	Not in release
	22.10 kinetic	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	21.10 impish	Not in release
	21.04 hirsute	Not in release
	20.10 groovy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Not affected
	19.10 eoan	Not affected
	19.04 disco	Not affected
	18.10 cosmic	Not affected
	18.04 LTS bionic	Not affected
	17.10 artful	Ignored end of life
	17.04 zesty	Ignored end of life
	16.10 yakkety	Ignored end of life
	16.04 LTS xenial	Ignored end of standard support, was needed
	14.04 LTS trusty	Ignored end of standard support
	12.04 LTS precise	Ignored end of life

Notes

ratliff

The mongodb advisory recommend upgrading to latest 2.6. No 2.4 patch

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
mongodb	Upsteam: f007ee0

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version: CVSS v3.0

Base score 7.5 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Privileges required	None
User interaction	None
Scope	Unchanged
Confidentiality impact	None
Integrity impact	None
Availability impact	High

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.5 · High
Exploitability score	-
Impact score	-

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H