High severity · published Feb 27, 2025
CVE-2025-1756
MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows
7.8
CVSS
0.2%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
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
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
High
Integrity
High
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.2% · higher than 5% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
MO
mongosh · MongoDB Inc
before 2.3.0 · source: vendor, NVD
CL
Codeready Linux Builder Eus · Redhat
9.4 · source: NVD
CL
Codeready Linux Builder For Arm64 Eus · Redhat
9.4_aarch64 · source: NVD
CL
Codeready Linux Builder For Ibm Z Systems Eus · Redhat
9.4_s390x · source: NVD
CL
Codeready Linux Builder For Power Little Endian Eus · Redhat
9.4_ppc64le · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Eus · Redhat
9.4 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 · Redhat
9.4_aarch64 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Arm 64 Eus · Redhat
9.4_aarch64 · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems · Redhat
9.4_s390x · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Ibm Z Systems Eus · Redhat
9.4_s390x · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux For Power Little Endian Eus · Redhat
9.4_ppc64le · source: NVD
EL
Enterprise Linux Server Aus · Redhat
9.4 · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1756
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1756
Issue Tracking
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2028
Third Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1756
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