CVE-2025-1756
What it is
mongosh may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privilege, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects mongosh prior to 2.3.0
At a glance
- Exploitability
- Can be exploited locally on the machine with a low-privilege account, but needs a user to act. High risk of data exposure, data tampering, service disruption.
- Exploit odds
- 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Fix
- A patch, advisory or fixed version is referenced. Upgrade or apply it.
Timeline
- PublishedDisclosed publicly on CVE.org and NVD
- Last updatedMost recent change to the record
Why it ranks here
- Exploited in the wild: no, CISA does not list it.
- Exploit odds: 0.2% in the next 30 days (EPSS).
- Severity: 7.5 HIGH (CVSS).
- Fix: a patch or advisory is linked.
Details
- Published
- Last modified
- Exploit probability
- 0.2% · EPSS, next 30 days
- Weakness
- CWE-426
- Record status
- Analyzed
Affected
- Mongodb Mongosh < 2.3.0
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder Eus 9.4
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For arm64 Eus 9.4_aarch64
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For IBM Z Systems Eus 9.4_s390x
- Redhat Codeready Linux Builder For Power Little Endian Eus 9.4_ppc64le
- Redhat Enterprise Linux Update Services For Sap Solutions 9.4
- Redhat Enterprise Linux Eus 9.4
- Redhat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 9.4_aarch64
Attack profile CVSS 3.1 · 7.5
- Attack vector
- Local
- Complexity
- High
- Privileges needed
- Low
- User interaction
- Required
- Scope
- Changed
- Confidentiality
- High
- Integrity
- High
- Availability
- High
Raw vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Is it in your code?
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