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TI-2025-10982 Aliases CVE-2025-11979GHSA-ghg7-x6j9-jm6p

Use-after-free in the MongoDB server query planner may lead to crash or undefined behavior

Priority LOW 28CWE-416Published · Updated

Key facts

Attack vector
Network
Privileges required
Low
User interaction
None
Attack complexity
Low
Impact type
Denial of service
Confidentiality · integrity · availability
None · None · 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 authorized user may crash the MongoDB server by causing buffer over-read. This can be done by issuing a DDL operation while queries are being issued, under some conditions. This issue affects MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.25, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.15, and MongoDB Server version 8.2.0.

Why it matters now

Exploitation None reported CISA SSVC · not in CISA KEV
EPSS 0.00269 19th percentileScored 2026-11-07
Fix Fixed Server (MongoDB Inc.): 8.0.14, 7.0.25

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
MongoDBServer8.2.0; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.14; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.258.0.14, 7.0.25Patch availableCNA
  • Server VendorMongoDB Affected 8.2.0; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.14; 7.0.0 to before 7.0.25 Fixed in 8.0.14, 7.0.25 Patch available CNA

CPE configurations NVD · 1

CPEVersionsRoleVendor
cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:*7.0.0 to before 7.0.25; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.15VulnerableMongoDB
  • cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:-:*:*:* Versions 7.0.0 to before 7.0.25; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.15 Vulnerable ·MongoDB

Remediation

  • Fix · CNA Server (MongoDB Inc.) Fixed in 8.0.14, 7.0.25

Timeline

  1. 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2025-11979
  2. 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ghg7-x6j9-jm6p

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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