mongoaudit 0.1.1

Introduction

It is widely known that there are quite a few holes in MongoDB’s default configuration settings. This fact, combined with abundant lazy system administrators and developers, has led to what the press has called the MongoDB apocalypse.

mongoaudit not only detects misconfigurations, known vulnerabilities and bugs but also gives you advice on how to fix them, recommends best practices and teaches you how to DevOp like a pro!

Supported tests

• MongoDB listens on a port different to default one

• Server only accepts connections from whitelisted hosts / networks

• MongoDB HTTP status interface is not accessible on port 28017

• MongoDB is not exposing its version number

• MongoDB version is newer than 2.4

• TLS/SSL encryption is available

• TLS/SSL encryption is enabled

• TLS/SSL certificate is valid (not self-signed)

• Authentication is enabled

• SCRAM-SHA-1 authentication method is enabled

• Server-side Javascript is forbidden *

• Roles granted to the user only permit CRUD operations *

• The user has permissions over a single database *

• Security bug CVE-2015-7882

• Security bug CVE-2015-2705

• Security bug CVE-2014-8964

• Security bug CVE-2015-1609

• Security bug CVE-2014-3971

• Security bug CVE-2014-2917

• Security bug CVE-2013-4650

• Security bug CVE-2013-3969

• Security bug CVE-2012-6619

• Security bug CVE-2013-1892

• Security bug CVE-2013-2132

Tests marked with an asterisk (*) require valid authentication credentials.

How can I best secure my MongoDB?

Once you run any of the test suites provided by mongoaudit, it will offer you to receive a fully detailed report via email. This personalized report links to a series of useful guides on how to fix every specific issue and how to harden your MongoDB deployments.

For your convenience, we have also published the mongoaudit guides in our Medium publication .

Contributing

We’re happy you want to contribute! You can help us in different ways:

• Open an issue in GitHub with suggestions for improvements and errors you’re facing.

• Fork the repository and submit a pull request.

• Improve the documentation.

To submit a pull request, fork the mongoaudit repository and then clone your fork.

git clone git@github.com:<your-name>/mongoaudit.git

Make your suggested changes, git push and then submit a pull request.

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