What is CVE-2025-6714?

CVE-2025-6714 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-07-07.

How severe is CVE-2025-6714?

High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.

Resource exhaustion in MongoDB

CVE-2025-6714

MongoDB Server's mongos component can become unresponsive to new connections due to incorrect handling of incomplete data. This affects MongoDB when configured with load balancer support. This issue affects MongoDB Server v6.0 prior to 6.0.23, MongoDB Server v7.0 prior to 7.0.20 and MongoDB Server v8.0 prior to 8.0.9 Required Configuration: This affects MongoDB sharded clusters when configured with load balancer support for mongos using HAProxy on specified ports.

Vulnerability class: DoS (Denial of Service)

Published 2025-07-07 · last modified 2026-06-17.

CVSS v3 metric

CVSS v3 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H.

EPSS exploit prediction

EPSS: 0.004 (28.4th percentile), scored 2026-10-20.

Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 28th percentile — 28.4% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.

EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.003 · newest: 0.004 · change: +0.001

Affected products

MongoDB
MongoDB Inc Server — versions 6.0, 7.0, 8.0

Weakness classification (CWE)

References

jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-106753 (Issue Tracking, Vendor Advisory)

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2025-6714?: CVE-2025-6714 is a high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB, classified under Uncontrolled Resource Consumption. CVSS score: 7.5/10. Published 2025-07-07.
How severe is CVE-2025-6714?: High severity. CVSS v3 base score is 7.5 out of 10.