CVE-2021-32040

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    CVE-2021-32040

    Published: 12 Apr 2022Last Modified: 8 Jul 2026

    Summary:

    Details: It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.28, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.4 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.16. Workaround: >= v4.2.16 users and all v4.4 users can add the --setParameter internalPipelineLengthLimit=50 instead of the default 1000 to mongod at startup to prevent a crash.

    Affected packages

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    Affected ranges

    Type: GIT

    Events:

    Introduced- a4b751dcf51dd249c5865812b390cfd1c0129c30

    Affected versions

    r4.4.11-rc0
    r4.4.10-rc0
    r4.4.10
    r4.4.9-rc1
    r4.4.9
    r4.4.9-rc0
    r4.4.8-rc0
    r4.4.8
    r4.4.7-rc1
    r4.4.7
    r4.4.7-rc0
    r4.4.6-rc0
    r4.4.6
    r4.4.5-rc0
    r4.4.5
    r4.4.4-rc1
    r4.4.4
    r4.4.4-rc0
    r4.4.3-rc0
    r4.4.3
    r4.4.2-rc1
    r4.4.2
    r4.4.2-rc0
    r4.4.1-rc3
    r4.4.1
    r4.4.1-rc2
    r4.4.1-rc1
    r4.4.1-rc0
    r4.4.0

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High
    CVE-2021-32040 | CVE-DB