Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Aug 8, 2023· Updated Feb 13, 2025
Privilege Escalation for Project Owner and Project User Admin Roles in Ops Manager
CVE-2023-4009
Description
In MongoDB Ops Manager v5.0 prior to 5.0.22 and v6.0 prior to 6.0.17 it is possible for an authenticated user with project owner or project user admin access to generate an API key with the privileges of org owner resulting in privilege escalation.
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Affected products
2- Range: >=5.0 <5.0.22, >=6.0 <6.0.17
- MongoDB Inc./MongoDB Ops Managerv5Range: 6.0
Patches
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