Post-auth memory exhaustion via bitwise match expressions
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- Low
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- Low
- Attack requirements
- None
- Impact type
- —
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- None · None · High
- Fix status
- Fixed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA.
Summary
An authenticated user can cause excess memory usage via bitwise match expression AST processing of $bitsAllSet, $bitsAnySet, $bitsAllClear, and $bitsAnyClear. This contributes to memory pressure and may lead to availability loss by OOM. This issue impacts MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.34, v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.23, v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.9 and v8.3 versions prior to 8.3.2.
Why it matters now
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
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | MongoDB Server | 7.0 to before 7.0.34; 8.0 to before 8.0.23; 8.2 to before 8.2.9; 8.3 to before 8.3.2 | 7.0.34, 8.0.23, 8.2.9, 8.3.2 | Patch available | CNA |
- MongoDB Server VendorMongoDB Affected 7.0 to before 7.0.34; 8.0 to before 8.0.23; 8.2 to before 8.2.9; 8.3 to before 8.3.2 Fixed in 7.0.34, 8.0.23, 8.2.9, 8.3.2 Patch available CNA
CPE configurations NVD · 1
| CPE | Versions | Role | Vendor |
|---|---|---|---|
| cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | 7.0.0 to before 7.0.34; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.23; 8.2.0 to before 8.2.9; 8.3.0 to before 8.3.2 | Vulnerable | MongoDB |
- cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* Versions 7.0.0 to before 7.0.34; 8.0.0 to before 8.0.23; 8.2.0 to before 8.2.9; 8.3.0 to before 8.3.2 Vulnerable ·MongoDB
Remediation
- Fix · CNA MongoDB Server (MongoDB, Inc.) Fixed in 7.0.34, 8.0.23, 8.2.9, 8.3.2
Fixed in the same release
Records fixed by the same vendor advisory or release, as the CNA lists them.
- Release ·
MongoDB Server 7.0.34, 8.0.23 and 2 more versions
4 records Highest priority Priority LOW 4 LOW
Other records, highest priority first
- TI-2026-07222 Use-After-Free in MongoDB FLE Query Analysis When Processing Positional Projections on Encrypted FieldsPriority LOW 26
- TI-2026-07223 Post-authentication CPU utilization DoS via $trim/$ltrim/$rtrim operatorsPriority LOW 24
- TI-2026-07221 Schema validation log messages may not redact user dataPriority LOW 21
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-8199
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-ch76-jrmh-qm2h
References
More Mongodb vulnerabilities
- 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
Sources
- CVE-2026-8199 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-8199 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-ch76-jrmh-qm2h · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
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