Medium severity6.5NVD Advisory· Published Apr 12, 2022· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2021-32040
CVE-2021-32040
Description
It may be possible to have an extremely long aggregation pipeline in conjunction with a specific stage/operator and cause a stack overflow due to the size of the stack frames used by that stage. If an attacker could cause such an aggregation to occur, they could maliciously crash MongoDB in a DoS attack. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to and including 4.4.28, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.4 and MongoDB Server v4.2 versions prior to 4.2.16.
Workaround: >= v4.2.16 users and all v4.4 users can add the --setParameter internalPipelineLengthLimit=50 instead of the default 1000 to mongod at startup to prevent a crash.
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Affected products
4- MongoDB Inc./MongoDB Serverv5Range: 5.0
Patches
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References
4- jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-58203nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-59299nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-60218nvdIssue TrackingPatchVendor Advisory
- security.netapp.com/advisory/ntap-20220609-0005/nvdThird Party Advisory
News mentions
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