CVE-2025-1755: MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with…

PriorityP340high7.8CVSS 3.1

AVLACLPRLUINSUCHIHAH

EPSS

0.14%

3.6th percentile

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

Affected

6 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mongodb	compass	< 1.42.1	1.42.1
mongodb_inc	mongodb_compass	< 1.42.1	1.42.1
redhat	enterprise_linux_for_arm_64	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_for_ibm_z_systems	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_server_for_power_little_endian_update_services_for_sap_solution	—	—
redhat	enterprise_linux_update_services_for_sap_solutions	—	—

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