CVE-2026-18697

published 2026-08-11

CVE-2026-18697: An issue in MongoDB Server's aggregation framework could allow an unauthenticated party to cause a mongos (router) process to terminate unexpectedly by…

Priority P3 44 high 7.5 CVSS 3.1

AV N AC L PR N UI N S U C N I N A H

An issue in MongoDB Server's aggregation framework could allow an unauthenticated party to cause a mongos (router) process to terminate unexpectedly by submitting a specially formed aggregation command. This could result in a denial of service, disrupting client connections routed through the affected mongos instance.

Affected

10 ranges

Vendor	Product	Version range	Fixed in
mongodb	mongodb	—	—
mongodb	mongodb	—	—
mongodb	mongodb	—	—
mongodb	mongodb	>= 7.0.0 < 7.0.40	7.0.40
mongodb	mongodb	>= 8.0.0 < 8.0.29	8.0.29
mongodb	mongodb	8.2.0 – 8.2.12	—
mongodb	mongodb	>= 8.3.0 < 8.3.8	8.3.8
mongodb	mongodb_server	>= 7.0 < 7.0.40	7.0.40
mongodb	mongodb_server	>= 8.0 < 8.0.29	8.0.29
mongodb	mongodb_server	>= 8.3.0 < 8.3.8	8.3.8

CVSS provenance

nvd v3.1 7.5 HIGH CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

nvd v4.0 8.7 HIGH CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/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

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