CVE-2023-4009

Privilege Escalation for Project Owner and Project User Admin Roles in Ops Manager

HIGH
7.2
CVSS Score
Published: August 8, 2023 at 08:37 AM UTC
Updated: June 17, 2026 at 06:36 AM UTC
2 products affected across 1 vendorOps Manager ServerOps Manager

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Severity
HIGH7.2
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
SSVC
No known exploit

Description

In MongoDB Ops Manager v5.0 prior to 5.0.22 and v6.0 prior to 6.0.17 it is possible for an authenticated user with project owner or project user admin access to generate an API key with the privileges of org owner resulting in privilege escalation.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

5.0.0 ≤ v < 5.0.226.0.0 ≤ v < 6.0.17
Affected range stops below 5.0.22, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 6.0.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
5.0 ≤ v < 5.0.226.0 ≤ v < 6.0.175.06.0
Affected range stops below 5.0.22, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement
Affected range stops below 6.0.17, so it looks safe — our inference, not a vendor statement

Remediation

No guide yet

No remediation guidance has been written for this CVE yet. What the record does show:

SSVC — Action Prioritization

SSVCNo known exploitNot automatableTotal impact

SSVC signals action urgency (what to patch first), separate from CVSS which measures severity.

CVSS

7.2HIGHmongodb
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Complexity
LOW
Privileges
HIGH
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
HIGH
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
HIGH
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-648CWE-269

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