CVE-2026-18687
HighCVSS 7.1Exploitation Probability (EPSS)
Low risk6th percentile - higher than 6% of all known CVEs
Summary
MongoDB Server improperly validates request parameters for a Queryable Encryption maintenance operation against the collection's encrypted field configuration. An authenticated user with readWrite privileges can send a specially crafted request causing a server crash or excessive internal writes, leading to resource exhaustion and corruption of encrypted index data.
Risk Assessment
The attack can cause denial of service (DoS) and corruption of encrypted index data, potentially affecting data integrity and availability in MongoDB.
Recommendation
Apply the patches provided by MongoDB immediately and restrict readWrite privileges to trusted users only.
Other vulnerabilities in MongoDB Server
See all- CVE-2026-96297Medium
Use of freed memory in the aggregation feature of MongoDB Server can cause the server to read data from a memory area after it has been released when an internal aggregation stage is combined with a batch size of 0. Query results returned to the client may contain unrelated data from the server process, and the server process may also terminate unexpectedly.
- CVE-2026-104004Medium
MongoDB Server's collection validation feature may not properly handle certain expressions stored in a validator. In some cases, this can cause the server process to stop running when a document is later inserted. The behavior can occur for authenticated users with write access.
- CVE-2026-103965Medium
An issue in MongoDB Server's aggregation framework can cause certain constant values to be handled incorrectly during internal query rewriting. Under certain conditions, an authenticated user with read access may receive field values in aggregation output that the query did not intend to return.
- CVE-2026-8336High
CVE-2026-8336 allows an authenticated user to crash the mongod server by improperly using server-side JavaScript functions. The issue affects MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.9 and v8.3 versions prior to 8.3.2.
- CVE-2026-8053High
An issue in MongoDB Server's time-series collection implementation allows an authenticated user with database write privileges to trigger an out-of-bounds memory write in the mongod process. The issue results from an inconsistency in the internal field-name-to-index mapping within the time-series bucket catalog.
- CVE-2025-14847HighActively exploited
Mismatched length fields in Zlib compressed protocol headers may allow a read of uninitialized heap memory by an unauthenticated client. This issue affects all MongoDB Server v7.0 prior to 7.0.28 versions, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.17, MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.3, MongoDB Server v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.27, MongoDB Server v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.32, MongoDB Server v4.4 versions prior to 4.4.30, MongoDB Server v4.2 versions greater than or equal to 4.2.0, MongoDB Server v4.0 versions greater than or equal to 4.0.0, and MongoDB Server v3.6 versions greater than or equal to 3.6.0.
- CVE-2026-89099High
A race condition in the document value layer of MongoDB Server allows concurrent server threads to operate on the same internal memory without synchronization, leading to memory corruption. An authenticated user with ordinary read-write privileges on a database can trigger this condition over the normal client protocol.
- CVE-2026-82076Medium
An integer overflow in the query planning component of MongoDB Server can allow an authenticated user with ordinary database-level read/write privileges to bypass an internal resource limit. Submitting a specially crafted query causes the server to consume memory without bound during query planning, and the resulting exhaustion terminates the server process. This may result in a denial of service affecting all databases served by the affected node.
- CVE-2026-82074Medium
MongoDB Server contains an incorrect authorization vulnerability in the aggregation framework. An authenticated user with minimal privileges can craft a specially formatted aggregation request that causes the server's authorization subsystem to evaluate a different operation than what is actually executed, resulting in unauthorized read access to collection data within the target database.
- CVE-2026-82073Medium
A security issue in the MongoDB Server aggregation framework allows an authenticated user with limited read privileges to bypass view-level authorization checks and access data from unauthorized collections when Atlas Search features are in use. The issue stems from insufficient validation of an internal command parameter that can be set by external clients, causing a security check to be improperly skipped.
Original NVD description (English source)
MongoDB Server's handling of a Queryable Encryption maintenance operation did not properly validate certain request parameters against the collection's encrypted field configuration before use. An authenticated user with readWrite privileges could submit a specially formed request that leads to a server crash or excessive internal writes, resulting in resource exhaustion and corruption of encrypted index data.
Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS

