CVE-2016-6494

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Source
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-6494
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-6494.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-6494
Downstream
Published
2016-10-03T18:59:10Z
Modified
2025-10-15T08:19:45.195355Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The client in MongoDB uses world-readable permissions on .dbshell history files, which might allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these files.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/mongodb/mongo

Affected ranges

Type
GIT
Repo
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
Events
Introduced
0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected
Fixed
035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0

Affected versions

0.*

0.9.1

1.*

1.7-cut

Other

idxv1

r0.*

r0.0.3
r0.0.4_rc1
r0.0.5_rc1
r0.0.6_rc1
r0.0.7_rc1
r0.0.7_rc2
r0.0.7_rc3
r0.0.7_rc4
r0.0.8_rc1
r0.0.9_rc1
r0.1.0_rc1
r0.1.0_rc2
r0.1.1_rc1
r0.1.2_rc1
r0.1.3_rc1
r0.1.4_rc1
r0.1.5_rc1
r0.1.6_rc1
r0.1.7_rc1
r0.2.0
r0.2.1
r0.8.0
r0.9.0
r0.9.1
r0.9.10
r0.9.2
r0.9.3
r0.9.4
r0.9.5
r0.9.6
r0.9.7
r0.9.8
r0.9.9

r1.*

r1.1.0
r1.1.1
r1.1.2
r1.1.3
r1.3.0
r1.3.1
r1.3.2
r1.3.3
r1.3.4
r1.3.5
r1.5.0
r1.5.1
r1.5.2
r1.5.3
r1.5.4
r1.5.5
r1.5.6
r1.5.7
r1.5.8
r1.7.0
r1.7.1
r1.7.2
r1.7.3
r1.7.4
r1.7.5
r1.7.6
r1.8.0-rc0
r1.9.0
r1.9.1
r1.9.2

r2.*

r2.0.0-rc0
r2.0.0-rc1
r2.0.0-rc2
r2.1.0
r2.1.1
r2.1.2
r2.2.0-rc0
r2.3.0
r2.3.1
r2.3.2
r2.4.0-rc0
r2.4.0-rc1
r2.4.0-rc2
r2.4.0.rc1
r2.5.0
r2.5.1
r2.5.2
r2.5.3
r2.5.4
r2.5.5
r2.6.0-rc0
r2.6.0-rc1
r2.7.0
r2.7.1
r2.7.2
r2.7.3
r2.7.4
r2.7.5
r2.7.6
r2.7.7
r2.7.8
r2.8.0-rc0
r2.8.0-rc1
r2.8.0-rc2
r2.8.0-rc3
r2.8.0-rc4
r2.8.0-rc5

r3.*

r3.1.0
r3.1.1
r3.1.2
r3.1.3
r3.1.4
r3.1.5
r3.1.6
r3.1.7
r3.1.8
r3.1.9
r3.2.0
r3.2.0-rc0
r3.2.0-rc1
r3.2.0-rc2
r3.2.0-rc3
r3.2.0-rc4
r3.2.0-rc5
r3.2.0-rc6
r3.3.0
r3.3.1
r3.3.10
r3.3.11
r3.3.12
r3.3.2
r3.3.3
r3.3.4
r3.3.5
r3.3.6
r3.3.7
r3.3.8
r3.3.9

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "id": "CVE-2016-6494-64ea98b7",
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/mongo/shell/linenoise.cpp"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "line_hashes": [
                "38063034419634664737981663660779055012",
                "101697571783015226221381688843369382507",
                "185011636944525901495440648769089785365",
                "70338109544889562649275598797745262164",
                "155517756751757356375046794437329057913",
                "332895618089064658357078612105625919264",
                "262387501813905643580075955270225324243",
                "42426834221099805833256320775712596191"
            ],
            "threshold": 0.9
        }
    },
    {
        "id": "CVE-2016-6494-7bd88d64",
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0",
        "target": {
            "file": "src/mongo/shell/linenoise.cpp",
            "function": "linenoiseHistorySave"
        },
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "digest": {
            "length": 291.0,
            "function_hash": "60644063054288997552283925539806540792"
        }
    }
]