Description
Under very specific circumstances (see Required configuration section below), a privileged user is able to cause arbitrary code to be executed which may cause further disruption to services. This is specific to applications written in C#. This affects all MongoDB .NET/C# Driver versions prior to and including v2.18.0
Following configuration must be true for the vulnerability to be applicable: * Application must written in C# taking arbitrary data from users and serializing data using _t without any validation AND
* Application must be running on a Windows host using the full .NET Framework, not .NET Core AND
* Application must have domain model class with a property/field explicitly of type System.Object or a collection of type System.Object (against MongoDB best practice) AND
* Malicious attacker must have unrestricted insert access to target database to add a _t discriminator."Following configuration must be true for the vulnerability to be applicable
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | MongoDB .NET/C# Driver | ≤ v2.18.0 | — |
Affected packages
| Ecosystem | Package | Affected | Fixed | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NuGet | MongoDB.Driver | < 2.19.0 | 2.19.0 | GHSA-7j9m-j397-g4wx |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2023-0441 MongoDB: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Codeausführung BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Feb 21, 2023