MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting (MongoDB Inc mongosh)
At a glance
- Source
- NVD
- EPSS
- EPSS 0.28 % · percentile 20 ()
- State
- PUBLISHED
- Published
- Updated
- Assigner
- mongodb
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Description
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
Weaknesses (CWE)
- CWE-150 — Improper Neutralization of Escape, Meta, or Control Sequences
References
Scores
| Version | Score | Vector | Scored by |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | mongodb |
| CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM 6.3 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · cna@mongodb.com (Secondary) |
| CVSS 3.1 | HIGH 8.8 | CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H | NVD · nvd@nist.gov (Primary) |
Advisories
- GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37 — MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting
European references
- ENISA EUVD · EUVD-2025-5465
- GCVE · GCVE-0-2025-1692
CERT-FR advisories
- CERTFR-2025-AVI-0166 — Multiples vulnérabilités dans MongoDB · cert.ssi.gouv.fr
Affected configurations (NVD CPE)
cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*< 2.3.9
Affected products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
| MongoDB Inc · mongosh | affected 0 < 2.3.9 |
Sources
| Source | Licence |
|---|---|
| CVE List (CVEProject cvelistV5) | CVE Program Terms of Use |
| EPSS (FIRST.org) | FIRST — attribution requested |
| ENISA EUVD | ENISA — reproduction authorised, source acknowledged |
| CERT-FR (ANSSI) | Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0 |
| NVD (NIST) via fkie-cad/nvd-json-data-feeds | Public domain — this product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD |