NVD / CVE Program· CNA mongodb

CVE-2025-11979: Use-after-free in the MongoDB server query planner may lead to crash or undefined behavior

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 26/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 0.26% (FIRST EPSS).
Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it. A low-privileged account is enough. No user action is required. No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.
Fixed version: MongoDB Inc. Server 7.0.25, 8.0.14.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to MongoDB Inc. Server 7.0.25, 8.0.14 or later.

Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it

Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS

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.

MediumCVSS 6.5 · v3.1—No exploit Fix available

BDU:2025-15582

Published: Oct 20, 2025
Updated: Oct 8, 2026
EPSS: 0.2% · 19th percentile
CWE: CWE-416

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 26 / 40 · 6.5 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · 0.2%

CISA SSVC decision

Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical impact: partial

Vulnrichment: CISA's decision-tree inputs.

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: 6.5
CNA · mongodb: 5.3; 1.2 point gap

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

The score given by the assigning authority versus NVD’s independent score. A gap means the severity is contested.

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Affected systems

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Vendor	Product	CPE
mongodb	mongodb	cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongodb

Affected versions

NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.

mongodb mongodb7.0.0 and later · before 7.0.25
mongodb mongodb8.0.0 and later · before 8.0.15

Versions reported by the vendor

Affected version ranges reported by the assigning authority (mongodb). Independent of NVD's CPE analysis and usually ahead of it.

MongoDB Inc. Server
- 8.2.0affected
- 8.0.0 and later · before 8.0.14affected · Custom
- 7.0.0 and later · before 7.0.25affected · Custom

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2025-10061Sep 5, 2025 · Malformed $group Query May Cause MongoDB Server to Crash
26Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2025-10060Sep 5, 2025 · MongoDB may be susceptible to Invariant Failure in Transactions due Upsert Operation
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2025-12657Nov 3, 2025 · Malformed KMIP response may result in access violation
23Monitor

Remediation

Which version to upgrade to

Fix versions compiled from the vendor, package registries and Microsoft. Verify the vendor's note before upgrading.

Product / package	Fixed version	Source
MongoDB Inc. Server	7.0.25	Vendor (CNA)
MongoDB Inc. Server	8.0.14	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

No public exploit has been observed yet. That doesn't mean you're safe, only that the bar is a little higher.

Research context

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Timeline

From publication to today: proof of concept, Metasploit module, CISA KEV and fix record. Dates are as reported by the sources.

No dated events beyond publication.

No history yet (it accumulates with the daily EPSS job).

Patch and commit links

Commit, PR and diff links among the references. A starting point for patch-diffing and variant hunting; fixes, not exploits.

No commit or PR link among the references.

Credits

All researchers

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No credits in the CNA record.

Variant candidates

Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.

CVE-2025-6706116 days apartRunning certain aggregation operations with the SBE engine may lead to unexpected behavior on MongoDB Server
35Monitor
CVE-2026-4148148 days apartExpressionContext use-after-free in classic engine $lookup and $graphLookup aggregation operators
34Monitor
CVE-2026-8336205 days apartPost-authentication use-after-free error in $_internalJsEmit and mapreduce commands
30Monitor
CVE-2026-18692295 days apartUse-After-Free in MongoDB Timeseries Bucket Handling Leads to Denial of Service and Potential Remote Code Execution
30Monitor
CVE-2026-18706295 days apartUse-After-Free in MongoDB $graphLookup Aggregation Stage Leads to Denial of Service and Potential Remote Code Execution
30Monitor
CVE-2026-13071275 days apartServer-Side JavaScript Aggregation Expression Memory Safety Issue Leading to Process Termination
28Monitor

Chain candidates

An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.

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Bug bounty scope

MongoDBHackerOne · paid

The product’s vendor appears in a public program. Matched by name; verify the scope text in the program.

Technical details

Attack conditions

Anyone who can reach it over the internet can trigger it.
A low-privileged account is enough.
No user action is required.
No special conditions are required; it is repeatable.

If successful

Confidentiality: none
Integrity: none
Availability: high · the service can be disrupted

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: Unchanged
Confidentiality impact: None
Integrity impact: None
Availability impact: High

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd-primary

Root cause

After a memory region is freed, another reference pointing to it is still used. By then, the same region may have been allocated for different data.

The bug in code

The whole CWE-416 class

A representative example of this vulnerability class. Not the vendor's source code; it shows the faulty pattern and its fix.

Vulnerable

1free(dev->buf);
2/* ... another thread is still running ... */
3process(dev->buf);

Fixed

1lock(&dev->lock);
2free(dev->buf);
3dev->buf = NULL;
4unlock(&dev->lock);

Attack context

MITRE CAPEC attack patterns and ATT&CK techniques for this weakness class (CWE). A starting point for detection rules and threat hunting.

MITRE has no CAPEC/ATT&CK mapping for this CWE.

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Sep 28, 2026, 10:10 PM UTC

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References

jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-105873

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