Mongo Shell escape

Mongo provides a native shell for interacting with local and remote MongoDB instances. In rare cases you may find that a user’s logon shell has been replaced with this Mongo shell, this could happen when there is a shared machine where you want developers/admins to access the database but not have native access to the host. Everytime the user logs in, they hit the mongo shell, can execute mongo db commands and thats it....

June 15, 2015 · 1 min · 168 words · Etienne Stalmans