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erdanielsyesterday at 9:46 PM2 repliesview on HN

No, but it's pretty common IME to create an Atlas cluster that has internet-wide access (0.0.0.0/0) when testing and forgetting to turn this off. According to https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-115508, this affects unauthenticated ops. Based on the repro code itself, it looks like this happens way before authentication is checked for the corresponding OP at the OP_MSG decoding level.

So if you're using Atlas, check that your Cluster has auto upgraded already. If you're using 0.0.0.0/0, stop doing that and prefer a limited IP address range and even better, use VPC Peering or other security/network boundary features.


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computerfan494yesterday at 10:06 PM

We received communication that all Atlas clusters were upgraded with the fix before the vulnerability was announced.

yearolinuxdsktptoday at 12:19 AM

This is a good example of a benefit of certificate-based authentication option for MongoDB, because you need to at least present a valid client certificate to transmit any data.