CVEvulnerability
CVE-2021-21422
6.1 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2021-06-21
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 8.1 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:N
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 6.1 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:N
- Weaknesses
- CWE-79
Description
mongo-express is a web-based MongoDB admin interface, written with Node.js and express. 1: As mentioned in this issue: https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577, when the content of a cell grows larger than supported size, clicking on a row will show full document unescaped, however this needs admin interaction on cell. 2: Data cells identified as media will be rendered as media, without being sanitized. Example of different renders: image, audio, video, etc. As an example of type 1 attack, an unauthorized user who only can send a large amount of data in a field of a document may use a payload with embedded javascript. This could send an export of a collection to the attacker without even an admin knowing. Other types of attacks such as dropping a database\collection are possible.
Affected configurations
• mongo-express project mongo-express (<= 0.54.0)
• mongo-express project mongo-express 1.0.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-79 Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation weakness
References
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/commit/f5e0d4931f856f032f22664b5e5901d5950cfd4b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/security/advisories/GHSA-7p8h-86p5-wv3p Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/commit/f5e0d4931f856f032f22664b5e5901d5950cfd4b Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/issues/577 Exploit, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/mongo-express/mongo-express/security/advisories/GHSA-7p8h-86p5-wv3p Exploit, Third Party Advisory