CVE-2024-8305 - CVE House
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Status published Medium CVE-2024-8305

MongoDB Server secondaries may crash due to forced index constraints

Vulnerability Description

prepareUnique index may cause secondaries to crash due to incorrect enforcement of index constraints on secondaries, where in extreme cases may cause multiple secondaries crashing leading to no primaries. This issue affects MongoDB Server v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.17, MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.13 and MongoDB Server v7.3 versions prior to 7.3.4

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

No credits recorded in the NVD database.

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Affected Vendor

MongoDB Inc

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Affected Software

MongoDB Server
Vulnerable Versions:
6.0, 7.0, 7.3

Timeline

Official Publish: October 21st, 2024
Last Modified: October 21st, 2024
Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-1288

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

No associated TTPs found for this vulnerability.