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CVE-2025-1692

MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

Published: Feb 27, 2025Updated: Sep 22, 2025 Sources: CVE List NVD GHSACWE-150
NVD MITRE
6.3CVSSMEDIUM
EPSS Score
0.2%
Top 87.2%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploits
No Known Exploits
Remediation
Patch Available

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

CVSS Vector Breakdown

AV:LAC:HPR:HUI:RS:UC:HI:HA:H
Exploitability
AV:LAttack Vector
Local
AC:HAttack Complexity
High
PR:HPrivileges Required
High
UI:RUser Interaction
Required
Scope
S:UScope
Unchanged
Impact
C:HConfidentiality
High
I:HIntegrity
High
A:HAvailability
High
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Weaknesses

CWE-150

Affected Products

mongoshMongoDB Inc
On-prem
Databases / nosql
mongoshnpmOSS Libraries
mongoshmongodbDatabases
mongodb inccommercialUSDatabasesaka mongodb, mongo
npmpackage-ecosystemOSS Libraries
mongodbcommercialUSDatabases

Exploitability

Official Patch Available

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025
jira.mongodb.org
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1692
nvd.nist.gov
https://github.com/mongodb-js/mongosh
github.com

Timeline

Published
Feb 27, 2025
Last Updated
Sep 22, 2025

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