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TI-2025-01455 Aliases CVE-2025-1692GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

Priority MEDIUM 40CWE-150Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
None
User interaction
Required
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
—
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
High · High · High
Fix status
Fixed

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA and GitHub.

Summary

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

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00278 20th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed mongosh (MongoDB Inc): 2.3.9mongosh (npm): 2.3.9

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Total

The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
MongoDBmongoshbefore 2.3.92.3.9Patch availableCNA
—mongosh (npm)before 2.3.92.3.9Patch availableGHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37
  • mongosh VendorMongoDB Affected before 2.3.9 Fixed in 2.3.9 Patch available CNA
  • mongosh (npm) Vendor— Affected before 2.3.9 Fixed in 2.3.9 Patch available GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*before 2.3.9VulnerableMongoDB
  • cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions before 2.3.9 Vulnerable ·MongoDB

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA mongosh (MongoDB Inc) Fixed in 2.3.9
  • Fix · GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37 mongosh (npm) Fixed in 2.3.9 Advisory →

Fixed in the same release

Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.

  • Release ·

    MongoDB mongosh 2.3.9

    3 records Highest priority Priority MEDIUM 1 MEDIUM, 2 LOW

    Other records, highest priority first

    • TI-2025-01454 MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocompletePriority LOW 35
    • TI-2025-01456 MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character Injection via shell outputPriority LOW 29
    Show all 3 records →

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-1692
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

References

Advisory 2

Other 1

  • TI-2025-01513 MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
  • TI-2025-01454 MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.6
  • TI-2025-01456 MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character Injection via shell output CVSS 3.1MEDIUM 6.8

Sources

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