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TI-2025-06090 Aliases CVE-2025-6706GHSA-9pjr-27w4-fm42

Running certain aggregation operations with the SBE engine may lead to unexpected behavior on MongoDB Server

Priority LOW 38CWE-416Published · Updated

Key facts

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

Attack profile from CVSS 3.1 · NVD. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-416 and the CVSS impact.

Summary

An authenticated user may trigger a use after free that may result in MongoDB Server crash and other unexpected behavior, even if the user does not have authorization to shut down a server. The crash is triggered on affected versions by issuing an aggregation framework operation using a specific combination of rarely-used aggregation pipeline expressions. This issue affects MongoDB Server v6.0 version prior to 6.0.21, MongoDB Server v7.0 version prior to 7.0.17 and MongoDB Server v8.0 version prior to 8.0.4 when the SBE engine is enabled.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00266 18th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed MongoDB Server (MongoDB Inc): 6.0.21, 7.0.17, 8.0.4

SSVC decision points

CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3

Exploitation
None
Automatable
No
Technical impact
Partial

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versionsFixed inStatusSource
MongoDBMongoDB Server6.0 to before 6.0.21; 7.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0 to before 8.0.46.0.21, 7.0.17, 8.0.4Patch availableCNA
  • MongoDB Server VendorMongoDB Affected 6.0 to before 6.0.21; 7.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0 to before 8.0.4 Fixed in 6.0.21, 7.0.17, 8.0.4 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*6.0.0 to before 6.0.21; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.4VulnerableMongoDB
  • cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* Versions 6.0.0 to before 6.0.21; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.17; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.4 Vulnerable ·MongoDB

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA MongoDB Server (MongoDB Inc) Fixed in 6.0.21, 7.0.17, 8.0.4

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-6706
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-9pjr-27w4-fm42

References

Advisory 1

  • TI-2025-13542 Zlib compressed protocol header length confusion may allow memory read KEVCVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2013-01669 MongoDB before 2.0.9 and 2.2.x before 2.2.4 does not properly validate requests to the… CVSS 2.0MEDIUM 6.0
  • TI-2026-56639 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in MongoDB Sharded Cluster Router Allows Unauthenticated Denial of Service CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-56628 Reachable assertion in MongoDB Server CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-15322 Improper Input Validation in MongoDB Aggregation Framework Allows Unauthenticated Denial of Service on mongos CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
  • TI-2026-08537 Unbounded recursion in BSONColumn interleaved-reference causes pre-auth stack overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.7
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Sources

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