GHSA-4rjr-3gj2-5crq

Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor in MongoDB Rust Driver

Source: GitHub Advisory Database (reviewed) Moderate CVE-2021-20332

Packages

Ecosystem	Package	Affected	Fixed in
crates.io	mongodb	>= 1.0.0, < 2.0.0-beta	2.0.0-beta

Details

As written in the advisory (Markdown source, shown as plain text).

Specific MongoDB Rust Driver versions can include credentials used by the connection pool to authenticate connections in the monitoring event that is emitted when the pool is created. The user's logging infrastructure could then potentially ingest these events and unexpectedly leak the credentials. Note that such monitoring is not enabled by default.

References

External links from the advisory. They lead to third-party sites.

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2021-20332 advisory
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-rust-driver/commit/9e8782b1bb1104e5399c073b553719c262d4463c web
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-rust-driver package
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/RUST-591 web