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Security Bulletin: a vulnerability in MongoDB affects IBM Performance Management products (CVE-2016-6494)

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Summary

MongoDB could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by incorrect file permissions on .dbshell history files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from .dbshell history files.

Vulnerability Details

CVEID: CVE-2016-6494
DESCRIPTION: MongoDB could allow a local attacker to obtain sensitive information, caused by incorrect file permissions on .dbshell history files. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information from .dbshell history files.
CVSS Base Score: 6.2
CVSS Temporal Score: See https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/117469 for the current score
CVSS Environmental Score*: Undefined
CVSS Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N)

Affected Products and Versions

IBM Monitoring 8.1.2 and 8.1.3

IBM Application Diagnostics 8.1.2 and 8.1.3

IBM Application Performance Management 8.1.2 and 8.1.3

IBM Application Performance Management Advanced 8.1.2 and 8.1.3

Remediation/Fixes

See the "Workarounds and Mitigations" section of this bulletin for details.

Workarounds and Mitigations

Complete these steps on the system where MongoBD is installed:

  1. Verify that the .dbshell history file is world readable.
    On the system where MongoDB is installed, enter the following command:
    [root@picard ~]#ls -al /root/.dbshell
    Output similar to the following output is displayed:
    -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 9371 Nov 7 10:51 /root/.dbshell
    If the last 'r' in the sample output is displayed, the world has read access to this file.
  2. To fix the issue, enter: chmod o-rwx /root/.dbshell

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*The CVSS Environment Score is customer environment specific and will ultimately impact the Overall CVSS Score. Customers can evaluate the impact of this vulnerability in their environments by accessing the links in the Reference section of this Security Bulletin.

Disclaimer

Review the IBM security bulletin disclaimer and definitions regarding your responsibilities for assessing potential impact of security vulnerabilities to your environment.

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Document Information

Modified date:
17 June 2018

UID

swg21993793