I'm still thinking about the hypothetical optimism brought by OWASP top 10 hoping that major flaws will be solved and that buffer overflow has been there since the beginning... in 2003.
A highly cited reason for using mongo is that people would rather not figure out a schema. (N=3/3 for “serious” orgs I know using mongo).
That sort of inclination to push off doing the right thing now to save yourself a headache down the line probably overlaps with “let’s just make the db publicly exposed” instead of doing the work of setting up an internal network to save yourself a headache down the line.
I'm still thinking about the hypothetical optimism brought by OWASP top 10 hoping that major flaws will be solved and that buffer overflow has been there since the beginning... in 2003.
How often are mongo instances exposed to the internet? I'm more of an SQL person and for those I know it's pretty uncommon, but does happen.
From my experience, Mongo DB's entire raison d'etre is "laziness".
* Don't worry about a schema.
* Don't worry about persistence or durability.
* Don't worry about reads or writes.
* Don't worry about connectivity.
This is basically the entire philosophy, so it's not surprising at all that users would also not worry about basic security.
A highly cited reason for using mongo is that people would rather not figure out a schema. (N=3/3 for “serious” orgs I know using mongo).
That sort of inclination to push off doing the right thing now to save yourself a headache down the line probably overlaps with “let’s just make the db publicly exposed” instead of doing the work of setting up an internal network to save yourself a headache down the line.
I would have hoped that there would be no important data in mongoDB.
But now we can at least be rest assured that the important data in mongoDB is just very hard to read with the lack of schemas.
Probably all of that nasty "schema" work and tech debt will finally be done by hackers trying to make use of that information.
The article links to a shodan scan reporting 213K exposed instances https://www.shodan.io/search?query=Product%3A%22MongoDB%22