CVE-2016-6494
- 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
- 2016-10-03T18:59:10.523Z
- Modified
- 2025-11-14T04:46:51.733806Z
- 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
-
- https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/package-announce%40lists.fedoraproject.org/message/5MCE2ZLFBNOK3TTWSTXZJQGZVP4EEJDL/
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/4
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/07/29/8
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/92204
- https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=832908
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1362553
- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-25335
Affected packages
Git / github.com/mongodb/mongo
Affected ranges
- Type
- GIT
- Repo
- https://github.com/mongodb/mongo
- Events
-
Introduced0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affectedFixed
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
[
{
"signature_type": "Line",
"source": "https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"id": "CVE-2016-6494-64ea98b7",
"target": {
"file": "src/mongo/shell/linenoise.cpp"
},
"digest": {
"line_hashes": [
"38063034419634664737981663660779055012",
"101697571783015226221381688843369382507",
"185011636944525901495440648769089785365",
"70338109544889562649275598797745262164",
"155517756751757356375046794437329057913",
"332895618089064658357078612105625919264",
"262387501813905643580075955270225324243",
"42426834221099805833256320775712596191"
],
"threshold": 0.9
}
},
{
"signature_type": "Function",
"source": "https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/035cf2afc04988b22cb67f4ebfd77e9b344cb6e0",
"signature_version": "v1",
"deprecated": false,
"id": "CVE-2016-6494-7bd88d64",
"target": {
"file": "src/mongo/shell/linenoise.cpp",
"function": "linenoiseHistorySave"
},
"digest": {
"function_hash": "60644063054288997552283925539806540792",
"length": 291.0
}
}
]