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fkie_cve-2025-10491

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd

Published

2025-09-15 16:15

Modified

2025-09-16 12:49

Severity ?

7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

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

▼	URL	Tags
	cna@mongodb.com	https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-51366

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version

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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

▼	URL	Tags
	https://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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