Description
MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1
CVSS Metrics
- Vector
- CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- Attack Vector
- local
- Complexity
- high
- Privileges
- low
- User Action
- required
- Scope
- changed
- Confidentiality
- high
- Integrity
- high
- Availability
- high
- Weaknesses
- CWE-426CWE-426
Metadata
- Primary Vendor
- MONGODB
- Published
- 2/27/2025
- Last Modified
- 4/9/2025
- Source
- NIST NVD
- Note: Verify all details with official vendor sources before applying patches.
Affected Products
mongodb : compassredhat : enterprise_linux_for_arm_64redhat : enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systemsredhat : enterprise_linux_server_for_power_little_endian_update_services_for_sap_solutionsredhat : enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions
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