CyberRota Analysis
This is a high severity vulnerability with a CVSS score of 7.5. It affects MongoDB. It may be remotely exploitable. It may lead to a denial-of-service condition.
CVE
CVE-2017-14227
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.5
EPSS
2.80%
MongoDB
Original NVD Description
In MongoDB libbson 1.7.0, the bson_iter_codewscope function in bson-iter.c miscalculates a bson_utf8_validate length argument, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer over-read in the bson_utf8_validate function in bson-utf8.c), as demonstrated by bson-to-json.c.
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