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Access to system.users Collection¶
Changed in version 2.4.
In 2.4, only users with the userAdmin role have access to the
system.users collection.
In version 2.2 and earlier, the read-write users of a database all have
access to the system.users collection, which contains the user
names and user password hashes. [1]
| [1] | Read-only users do not have access
to the system.users collection. |
Password Hashing Insecurity¶
If a user has the same password for multiple databases, the hash will be the same. A malicious user could exploit this to gain access on a second database using a different user’s credentials.
As a result, always use unique username and password combinations for each database.
Thanks to Will Urbanski, from Dell SecureWorks, for identifying this issue.