CVE-2025-1756

highpriority · track · 31EPSS 0.002 · 5 %ileDEEUUS

grimoire priorityP2 · Scheduled

Exploitable?

—

no known exploitation

Likely / severe?

0.16% (5th) EPSS

CVSS 7.8 · high

Is it mine?

17 products

Check your exposure

Who says so?

5 sources

cnnvd · enisa_euvd · cert_bund · nvd

EPSS · scored 2026-10-23

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

cvss

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

7.8

010

base score 0–10 · higher = more severe · hover a vector to decode

v3.17.8highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:Hprimary · NVD / NIST USexploitability 1.8 · impact 5.9

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · ENISA EU

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · cna@mongodb.comexploitability 0.8 · impact 6

v3.17.5highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:Hsecondary · OSV

v3.17.1highCVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/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-426USprimaryCWE-426US

affected products (17)

Products and version ranges known to be affected.

Open Source MongoDB <2.3.0all versionscert_bundDE
Open Source MongoDB< 2.3.0cert_bundDE
MongoDB Inc mongosh0 → 2.3.0enisa_euvdEU
mongodb mongosh< 2.3.0nvdUScpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat codeready linux builder eus= 9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat codeready linux builder for arm64 eus= 9.4_aarch64nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_arm64_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat codeready linux builder for ibm z systems eus= 9.4_s390xnvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_ibm_z_systems_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat codeready linux builder for power little endian eus= 9.4_ppc64lenvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:codeready_linux_builder_for_power_little_endian_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux eus= 9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux for arm 64= 9.4_aarch64nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_arm_64:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux for arm 64 eus= 9.4_aarch64nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_arm_64_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems= 9.4_s390xnvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux for ibm z systems eus= 9.4_s390xnvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux for power little endian eus= 9.4_ppc64lenvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_for_power_little_endian_eus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux server aus= 9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:o:redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
redhat enterprise linux update services for sap solutions= 9.4nvdUScpe:2.3:a:redhat:enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
npm mongosh< 2.3.0osvUSpkg: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-f5w3-73h4-jpcmmongosh vulnerable to local privilege escalation2025-02-27ghsa · osvUS
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.

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

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references (6)

External citations — patches, advisories, analysis.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1756 cnnvd
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2028 cnnvd
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1756 cnnvd
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2028 enisa_euvd
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1756Third Party Advisorynvd
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2028Issue TrackingVendor Advisorynvd

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