CVE-2025-1692
MongoDB Shell Control Character Injection Vulnerability
Description
The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9
INFO
Published Date :
Feb. 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
Last Modified :
Feb. 27, 2025, 1:15 p.m.
Source :
[email protected]
Remotely Exploitable :
No
Impact Score :
5.9
Exploitability Score :
0.3
References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools
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CVE-2025-1692.
| URL | Resource |
|---|---|
| https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025 |
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New CVE Received by [email protected]
Feb. 27, 2025
Action Type Old Value New Value Added Description The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9 Added CVSS V3.1 AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H Added CWE CWE-150 Added Reference https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025
CWE - Common Weakness Enumeration
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weaknesses that can lead to vulnerabilities. CVE-2025-1692 is
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Common Attack Pattern Enumeration and Classification (CAPEC)
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approaches employed by adversaries to exploit the CVE-2025-1692
weaknesses.