CVE Catalog

CVE-2026-82068

MediumCVSS 6.5
Published: Updated: Translated: NVD NIST

Exploitation Probability (EPSS)

Low risk
0.29%

22th percentile - higher than 22% of all known CVEs

Summary

A security issue in MongoDB Server allows an authenticated user with write privileges to trigger a persistent fatal assertion crash by sending specially crafted retryable write commands. The crash state is durably persisted, causing the server process to repeatedly crash on restart and potentially propagating to additional nodes in a sharded cluster. Manual intervention is required to restore service availability.

Risk Assessment

Risk of persistent denial of service (DoS) in MongoDB cluster, potentially leading to prolonged data unavailability and requiring manual operator intervention.

Recommendation

Apply MongoDB security patches, restrict write privileges for untrusted users, and prepare contingency procedures for DoS attacks.

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Original NVD description (English source)

A security issue in MongoDB Server allows an authenticated user with write privileges to trigger a persistent fatal assertion crash by sending specially crafted retryable write commands. The crash state is durably persisted, causing the server process to repeatedly crash on restart and potentially propagating to additional nodes in a sharded cluster. Manual intervention is required to restore service availability.

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