CVE-2025-1692

highpriority · track · 35EPSS 0.003 · 20 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

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no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.28% (20th) EPSS

CVSS 8.8 · high

Is it mine?

7 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-26

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9

cvss

Technical severity, 0–10. One row per scoring source.

8.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode⚠ sources disagree · medium–high · 6.3–8.8

v3.18.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 2.8 · impact 5.9

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · cna@mongodb.comexploitability 0.3 · impact 5.9

v3.16.3mediumCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.18.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H/E:Usecondary · CVSS-BT (t0sche)

ssvc

A stakeholder decision — act, attend, or track — from exploitation and impact.

Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical Impact: totalcoordinatorcisa_ssvcUS

weaknesses

The CWE weakness classes this flaw belongs to.

CWE-150USCWE-150US

affected products (7)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source MongoDB <2.3.0all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source MongoDB <2.3.9all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source MongoDB< 2.3.0cert_bundDE
Open Source MongoDB< 2.3.9cert_bundDE
MongoDB Inc mongosh0 → 2.3.9enisa_euvdEU
mongodb mongosh< 2.3.9nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm mongosh< 2.3.9osvUSpkg:npm/mongosh

advisories (2)

Vendor and ecosystem advisories describing this.

WID-SEC-W-2025-0454MongoDB und MongoDB Compass: Mehrere SchwachstellenDeutsch2025-02-27csaf · cert_bundDE
Ein entfernter authentisierter oder lokaler Angreifer kann mehrere Schwachstellen in MongoDB und MongoDB Compass ausnutzen, um beliebigen Code auszuführen, Daten zu manipulieren und erhöhte Rechte zu erlangen.
GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting2025-02-27ghsa · osvUS
The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9.

also known as (3)

Other names and identifiers for this entity.

sources

Which sources assert this record, and when.

cnnvd enisa_euvd cert_bund nvd osv NVD CVE.org MITRE

published 2025-02-27modified 2026-06-17

references (4)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

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