A network-reachable client that has not yet authenticated can hold a MongoDB Connector for BI authentication session open indefinitely by beginning a SASL-based login exchange and then declining to complete it. Because the negotiation loop had no overall time bound and the read from the client had no deadline, each such session retains a worker, a client connection slot, and its associated backend database connections until the process is restarted. Repeated use of this behavior can consume the configured connection capacity and prevent legitimate users from establishing new sessions.

In MongoDB Connector for BI, mongodrdl may write a TLS private-key password to standard error when the password is supplied through both the connection URI and the corresponding command-line option. A local user with access to the captured command output and encrypted key file may use the disclosed password to access the associated TLS client key.