Specially crafted query may result in a denial of service of mongod
Priority LOW 31CWE-20Published · Updated
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Partial Red Hat: 1 without a fix
Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · CNA. Fix status from CNA and Red Hat.
Summary
A user authorized to performing a specific type of find query may trigger a denial of service. This issue affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.4.
Why it matters now
Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00948 61st percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Partial MongoDB Server (MongoDB Inc.): 4.4.4Red Hat: 1 without a fix
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Partial
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
Remediation
- Fix · CNA MongoDB Server (MongoDB Inc.) Fixed in 4.4.4
Vendor assessments
Red Hat
Red Hat rating: Moderate. Red Hat's page for this CVE →
| Product | Status | Plan or fix |
|---|---|---|
| Red Hat OpenStack Platform 10 (Newton) | Affected | No fix planned: Out of support scope |
Not affected: 3 products
- Red Hat Advanced Cluster Management for Kubernetes 2
- Red Hat Software Collections
- Red Hat Update Infrastructure 3 for Cloud Providers
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2021-20326
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-vqmx-64jh-5r2h
References
More Mongodb vulnerabilities
- TI-2025-13542 Zlib compressed protocol header length confusion may allow memory read KEVCVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2013-01669 MongoDB before 2.0.9 and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 does not properly validate requests to the… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.0
- TI-2026-56639 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in MongoDB Sharded Cluster Router Allows Unauthenticated Denial of Service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-56628 Reachable assertion in MongoDB Server CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-15322 Improper Input Validation in MongoDB Aggregation Framework Allows Unauthenticated Denial of Service on mongos CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
- TI-2026-08537 Unbounded recursion in BSONColumn interleaved-reference causes pre-auth stack overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
Sources
- CVE-2021-20326 · CVE Program
- CVE-2021-20326 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-vqmx-64jh-5r2h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2021-20326 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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