Vulnerability CVE-2021-20327


Published: 2021-02-25

Description:
A specific version of the Node.js mongodb-client-encryption module does not perform correct validation of the KMS server??s certificate. This vulnerability in combination with a privileged network position active MITM attack could result in interception of traffic between the Node.js driver and the KMS service rendering client-side field level encryption (CSFLE) ineffective. This issue was discovered during internal testing and affects mongodb-client-encryption module version 1.2.0, which was available from 2021-Jan-29 and deprecated in the NPM Registry on 2021-Feb-04. This vulnerability does not impact driver traffic payloads with CSFLE-supported key services from applications residing inside the AWS, GCP, and Azure nework fabrics due to compensating controls in these environments. This issue does not impact driver workloads that don??t use Field Level Encryption.

Type:

CWE-295

(Certificate Issues)

CVSS2 => (AV:A/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
4.3/10
4.9/10
5.5/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Adjacent network
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
None
Affected software
Mongodb -> Libmongocrypt 

 References:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/NODE-3125

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