Missing authorization check may lead to shard key refinement (CVE-2024-6375)

Summary

Missing authorization check may lead to shard key refinement

Original description

The description as published by the source.

A command for refining a collection shard key is missing an authorization check. This may cause the command to run directly on a shard, leading to either degradation of query performance, or to revealing chunk boundaries through timing side channels. This affects MongoDB Server v5.0 versions, prior to 5.0.22, MongoDB Server v6.0 versions, prior to 6.0.11 and MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.3.

Source: OSV.dev (Open Source Vulnerabilities) NVD OSV

Affected packages

Bitnami mongodb

[{"type":"SEMVER","events":[{"introduced":"5.0.0"},{"fixed":"5.0.22"},{"introduced":"6.0.0"},{"fixed":"6.0.11"},{"introduced":"7.0.0"},{"fixed":"7.0.3"}]}]

References

advisory jira.mongodb.org
web nvd.nist.gov