mongosh vulnerable to local privilege escalation
mongosh may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privilege, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects mongosh prior to 2.3.0.
This issue can be reached with local access to the system, attack complexity is high, an attacker needs low-level privileges on the target. A user must be tricked into taking some action. The scope is changed, meaning a successful attack can affect components beyond the vulnerable one. Rated impact: confidentiality high, integrity high, availability high.
The score comes from this vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVE-2025-1756 is classified as CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path. The product resolves a library or executable using a search path an attacker can influence.
CVE-2025-1756 is recorded against 13 packages.
Published on 27 February 2025 and last revised on 17 June 2026. No public exploit is currently recorded for this entry. Record sourced from NVD.
jira.mongodb.org
access.redhat.com
codeready-linux-builder-eus has other advisories on record. If you are patching this one, these are worth checking on the same host:
These advisories are the same class of weakness (CWE-426: Untrusted Search Path) in other software:
Details
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Affected Packages
| Software | From version | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| codeready-linux-builder-eus | — | — |
| codeready-linux-builder-for-arm64-eus | — | — |
| codeready-linux-builder-for-ibm-z-systems-eus | — | — |
| codeready-linux-builder-for-power-little-endian-eus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-eus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-for-arm-64 | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-for-arm-64-eus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-for-ibm-z-systems-eus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-for-power-little-endian-eus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-server-aus | — | — |
| enterprise-linux-update-services-for-sap-solutions | — | — |
| mongosh | — | — |
References
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