CVE-2025-10491 (GCVE-0-2025-10491)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-09-15 16:04
Modified
2025-09-16 03:55
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-284 - Improper Access Control
Summary
The MongoDB Windows installation MSI may leave ACLs unset on custom installation directories allowing a local attacker to introduce executable code to MongoDB's process via DLL hijacking. This issue affects MongoDB Server v6.0 version prior to 6.0.25, MongoDB Server v7.0 version prior to 7.0.21 and MongoDB Server v8.0 version prior to 8.0.5
References
cna@mongodb.comhttps://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-51366
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
MongoDB Inc MongoDB Server Version: 6.0   < 6.0.25
Version: 7.0   < 7.0.21
Version: 8.0   < 8.0.5
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