NVD / CVE Program· CNA mongodb

CVE-2026-120809: Heap use-after-free read via yield-time state save in time-series block unpacking

Noroxi assessment

Priority: Monitor (action score 24/100)

The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
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 MongoDB Server 8.0.37, 8.3.16, 9.0.7.

Low priority for now. Upgrade to MongoDB MongoDB Server 8.0.37, 8.3.16, 9.0.7 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

A use-after-free read issue exists in MongoDB’s SBE (Slot-Based Execution) engine when processing aggregation pipelines with $unwind on time-series collections. An internal error in state-preservation logic can cause a value still referenced by downstream stages to have its underlying memory freed prematurely. An authenticated user can craft an aggregation pipeline under specific conditions to trigger this condition, potentially reading recycled server heap memory in query results or crashing the server. This issue is only triggerable when a non-default server parameter related to the SBE engine is enabled.

MediumCVSS 6.1 · v4.0—No exploit Fix available

Memory safety

Published: Nov 10, 2026
Updated: Nov 10, 2026
EPSS: —
CWE: CWE-416

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Action score

Monitor

Low priority for now.

CVSS: 24 / 40 · 6.1 / 10
CISA KEV: 0 / 30 · Not listed
EPSS: 0 / 30 · —

CNA vs NVD score

NVD: —
CNA · mongodb: 6.1; NVD has not scored this yet; the score shown is the CNA’s.

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

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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 MongoDB Server
- 9.0.0 and later · before 9.0.7affected · semver
- 8.3.0 and later · before 8.3.16affected · semver
- 8.0.0 and later · before 8.0.37affected · semver

Same product

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Published before and after this one in the same product

← EarlierCVE-2026-120806Nov 10, 2026 · Authorization role-graph corruption via no-op cleanup filters in dropAllRolesFromDatabase
28Monitor
← EarlierCVE-2026-120807Nov 10, 2026 · Privilege escalation via fail-open user lookup in X.509 cluster-membership guard
30Monitor
Later →CVE-2026-120810Nov 10, 2026 · Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in MongoDB Server Aggregation Framework via Internal Expression Leads to Denial of Service
28Monitor

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 MongoDB Server	8.0.37	Vendor (CNA)
MongoDB MongoDB Server	8.3.16	Vendor (CNA)
MongoDB MongoDB Server	9.0.7	Vendor (CNA)

Exploit status

No known public exploit

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Research context

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Timeline

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PublishedNov 10, 2026
Fix recordedNov 10, 2026same day
TodayNov 10, 2026same day

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Patch and commit links

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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.

No nightly-computed relations.

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

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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
Integrity
Availability

Attack vector: Network
Attack complexity: Low
Privileges required: Low
User interaction: None
Scope: X

Weakness class (CWE)

CWE-416 · Use After Free

CVSS vector

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

nvd-secondary

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

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

Change log

Fix✗ → ✓Nov 10, 2026, 10:07 PM UTC
Exploit maturity— → noneNov 10, 2026, 9:07 PM UTC

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References

jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-132279

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