Security advisory

{
  "id": "ca56886c029305791c6e8572fb0426efb0f7e60cf1781b781e067fe3a19747f4",
  "url": "https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2016-3104",
  "method": "structured",
  "payload": {
    "kind": "advisory",
    "title": "CVE-2016-3104",
    "summary": "mongod in MongoDB 2.6, when using 2.4-style users, and 2.4 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (memory consumption and process termination) by leveraging in-memory database representation when authenticating against a non-existent database.",
    "evidence": "osv:CVE-2016-3104",
    "products": [],
    "severity": "high",
    "structured": {
      "id": "CVE-2016-3104",
      "aliases": [
        "CVE-2016-3104"
      ],
      "metrics": [
        {
          "type": "CVSS_V3",
          "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H"
        }
      ],
      "affected": [
        {
          "ranges": [
            {
              "repo": "https://github.com/mongodb/mongo",
              "type": "GIT",
              "events": [
                {
                  "introduced": "ce2d666c04b4a80af58e8bbb3388b0680e8cfeb6"
                },
                {
                  "last_affected": "1c1c76aeca21c5983dc178920f5052c298db616c"
                }
              ],
              "database_specific": {
                "extracted_events": [
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.4.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.4.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  },
                  {
                    "cpe": "cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
                    "range": [
                      {
                        "introduced": "2.6.0"
                      },
                      {
                        "last_affected": "2.6.0"
                      }
                    ],
                    "source": "CPE_STRING"
                  }
                ]
              }
            }
          ],
          "versions": [
            "2.4.0",
            "2.6.0"
          ],
          "database_specific": {
            "source": "https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-3104.json"
          }
        }
      ],
      "modified": "2026-10-24T10:30:33.994476984Z",
      "provider": "osv",
      "references": [
        "https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-24378",
        "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1324496"
      ],
      "provider_metadata": {
        "unresolved_ranges": [
          {
            "cpes": [
              "cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:2.4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*",
              "cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:2.6.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*"
            ],
            "vendor_product": "mongodb:mongodb",
            "extracted_events": [
              {
                "range": [
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.4.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.4.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "introduced": "2.6.0"
                  },
                  {
                    "last_affected": "2.6.0"
                  }
                ],
                "source": "CPE_STRING"
              }
            ]
          }
        ]
      }
    },
    "related_cves": [
      {
        "value": "CVE-2016-3104",
        "evidence": "/id"
      }
    ],
    "security_relevant": true,
    "severity_evidence": "/severity/0/score"
  },
  "source_id": "core-osv",
  "document_id": 433416,
  "published_at": "2017-04-14T18:59:00.25+00:00"
}