diff --git a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
index 55e9fa168f2c..b3f20072ffbe 100644
--- a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
+++ b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ ARG TARGETARCH
 
 LABEL org.opencontainers.image.authors="https://bitnami.com/contact" \
       org.opencontainers.image.description="Application packaged by Bitnami" \
-      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="5.0.12-debian-11-r3" \
+      org.opencontainers.image.ref.name="5.0.12-debian-11-r4" \
       org.opencontainers.image.source="https://github.com/bitnami/containers/tree/main/bitnami/mongodb-sharded" \
       org.opencontainers.image.title="mongodb-sharded" \
       org.opencontainers.image.vendor="VMware, Inc." \
diff --git a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
index 33c1ae7fa8af..1b1e41b4a5d4 100644
--- a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
+++ b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/5.0/debian-11/rootfs/opt/bitnami/scripts/libmongodb.sh
@@ -1071,7 +1071,7 @@ EOF
     if ! grep -q "user:" <<<"$result"; then
         # If no password was provided on first run
         # it may be the case that DB is up but has no users
-        [[ -z $password ]] && grep -q "\[\ \]" <<<"$result"
+        [[ -z $password ]] && grep -q "\[\]" <<<"$result"
     fi
 }
 
diff --git a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/README.md b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/README.md
index 3f8be0ed2d52..8e6139625f94 100644
--- a/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/README.md
+++ b/bitnami/mongodb-sharded/README.md
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ Learn more about the Bitnami tagging policy and the difference between rolling t
 
 
 * [`6.0`, `6.0-debian-11`, `6.0.1`, `6.0.1-debian-11-r8`, `latest` (6.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/mongodb/6.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)
-* [`5.0`, `5.0-debian-11`, `5.0.12`, `5.0.12-debian-11-r3` (5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/mongodb/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)
+* [`5.0`, `5.0-debian-11`, `5.0.12`, `5.0.12-debian-11-r4` (5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)](https://github.com/bitnami/containers/blob/main/bitnami/mongodb/5.0/debian-11/Dockerfile)
 
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