Vulnerability in MongoDB Mongosh
CVE-2025-1756
mongosh may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privilege, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects mongosh prior to 2.3.0
Published · last modified .
CVSS v3 metric
CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.002 (4.6th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 5th percentile — 4.6% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.001 · newest: 0.002 · change: +0.000
Affected products
- MongoDB Mongosh
- MongoDB Inc Mongosh — versions 0
- Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder Eus — versions 9.4
- Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder For Arm64 Eus — versions 9.4_aarch64
- Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder For IBM Z Systems Eus — versions 9.4_s390x
- Red Hat Codeready Linux Builder For Power Little Endian Eus — versions 9.4_ppc64le
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Eus — versions 9.4
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 — versions 9.4_aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 Eus — versions 9.4_aarch64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems — versions 9.4_s390x
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2028 (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)
- 134c704f-9b21-4f2e-91b3-4a467353bcc0 (Third Party Advisory)
Frequently asked questions
- What is CVE-2025-1756?
- CVE-2025-1756 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB Mongosh, classified under Untrusted Search Path. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-02-27.
- How severe is CVE-2025-1756?
- High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.