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Bug 475750 (CVE-2013-4650) - <dev-db/mongodb-{2.4.5,2.5.1}: Privilege escalation for authenticated users by leveraging a username of __system in an arbitrary database (CVE-2013-4650)
Summary: <dev-db/mongodb-{2.4.5,2.5.1}: Privilege escalation for authenticated users b...
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: CVE-2013-4650
Product: Gentoo Security
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Vulnerabilities (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal trivial (vote)
Assignee: Gentoo Security
URL: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug....
Whiteboard: ~1 [noglsa]
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Reported: 2013-07-04 14:52 UTC by Agostino Sarubbo
Modified: 2013-08-27 03:32 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description Agostino Sarubbo gentoo-dev 2013-07-04 14:52:43 UTC
From ${URL} :

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures assigned an identifier CVE-2013-4650 to the following vulnerability:

MongoDB 2.4.x before 2.4.5 and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote authenticated users to obtain internal system privileges by leveraging a username of __system in an 
arbitrary database.

References:
[1] http://www.mongodb.org/about/alerts/

External References:

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9983

Upstream patches:
* against 2.4 branch:
  [2] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/23344f8b7506df694f66999693ee3c00dfd6afae
  [3] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/6ad56b63d33987ed153ba757e9f8169ef670f58e

* against master branch:
  [4] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/c5ad04549e40b1069029026081d9324e9e06156c
  [5] https://github.com/mongodb/mongo/commit/fc9491ee7be6a7dc8a92a8422468284359073545


@maintainer(s): after the bump, in case we need to stabilize the package, please say explicitly if it is ready for the stabilization or not.
Comment 1 Ultrabug gentoo-dev 2013-07-04 16:42:10 UTC
  04 Jul 2013; Ultrabug <ultrabug@gentoo.org> -mongodb-2.4.4.ebuild:
  drop CVE affected ebuilds wrt #475750

*mongodb-2.4.5 (04 Jul 2013)

  04 Jul 2013; Ultrabug <ultrabug@gentoo.org> -mongodb-2.4.5_rc0.ebuild,
  +mongodb-2.4.5.ebuild:
  version bump, drop old

thx ago, the tree is clean and no stable candidate exists
Comment 2 Chris Reffett (RETIRED) gentoo-dev Security 2013-07-07 12:42:49 UTC
We're done here, then.
Comment 3 GLSAMaker/CVETool Bot gentoo-dev 2013-08-27 03:32:06 UTC
CVE-2013-4650 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2013-4650):
  MongoDB 2.4.x before 2.4.5 and 2.5.x before 2.5.1 allows remote
  authenticated users to obtain internal system privileges by leveraging a
  username of __system in an arbitrary database.