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There are over 213k+ potentially vulnerable internet-exposed MongoDB instances, ensuring that this exploit is web scale.

MongoDB is webscale

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[–] pupbiru@aussie.zone 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

well see when you’re too lazy to design a schema and just want to throw broken data into a black hole where you may or may not be able to retrieve it and deal with the repercussions in production - or better yet let the ops team handle it at 3am - then that’s when you’d choose mongodb