CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-82063

MediumCVSS 5.3
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.26%

17th percentile - higher than 17% of all known CVEs

Summary

A use-after-free security issue in the cursor management component of MongoDB Server allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service. Under specific timing conditions during cursor operations, a stale pointer to a freed resource may be retained and subsequently dereferenced during cursor cleanup, leading to a server process crash.

Risk Assessment

Risk of MongoDB server crash (denial of service) as a result of intentional exploitation by an authenticated user.

Recommendation

Install MongoDB updates that address this vulnerability and restrict access to cursor operations to trusted users.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A use-after-free security issue in the cursor management component of MongoDB Server allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service. Under specific timing conditions during cursor operations, a stale pointer to a freed resource may be retained and subsequently dereferenced during cursor cleanup, leading to a server process crash.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS