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CVE-2017-15535

29
FAUCET Score

CVE-2017-15535 describes a critical vulnerability in MongoDB versions 3.4.x before 3.4.10 and 3.5.x-development. This flaw, related to the disabled-by-default networkMessageCompressors setting, could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service or memory corruption if enabled. With a CVSS score of 9.1 (CRITICAL), it presents a high-impact threat with low attack complexity and no user interaction required. Despite its severity, there is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this vulnerability.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(s)CPE
>= 3.4.0, < 3.4.10CPE matchmatch criteria
cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

CVSS Data

CVSS version used by this source: 3.0

9.1CRITICAL

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H

Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
NONE
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
HIGH
Availability Impact
HIGH
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
5.2
CvssVersion
3.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
1.57%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
72.8%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0157 is in the 60th percentile among its peer group of 36,897 CVEs.

Social Chatter

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.1 Reddit, 0.3 Bluesky, 0.3 Mastodon, and 2.4 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.3 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Vendor Patches (1)

redhatend of lifevia redhat_api
Product: Red Hat Software CollectionsFixed in: rh-mongodb34-mongodb

Vendor Advisories (1)

redhatCVE-2017-15535Moderate

mongodb: Invalid wire protocol compression

Sep 29, 2017

References

jira.mongodb.org / browse/SERVER-31273
Issue TrackingVendor Advisory
securityfocus.com / bid/101689
Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry