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  1. Core Server
  2. SERVER-72535

Sharded clusters allow creating the 'admin', 'local', and 'config' databases with alternative casings

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    • v6.2, v6.0, v5.0, v4.4, v4.2
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      use Admin;
db.foo.insert({});

db.getSiblingDB("config").databases.find({_id: 'Admin'})
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      use Admin; db.foo.insert({}); db.getSiblingDB("config").databases.find({_id: 'Admin'})
    • Sharding EMEA 2023-01-23
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      The 'admin', 'local' and 'config' databases are special databases within the system. Users can not create them. However, it is possible for a user to create them with an alternative casing because these checks on _configsvrCreateDatabase will not match the alternative casings.. This can lead to those databases being incorrectly added to 'config.databases'.

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            jordi.serra-torrens@mongodb.com Jordi Serra Torrens
            Reporter:
            jordi.serra-torrens@mongodb.com Jordi Serra Torrens
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