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Medium · 6.3 CVE-2025-1692 EUVD-2025-5465GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

Published Feb 27, 2025 · Updated Feb 27, 2025 · Assigned by mongodb

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

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MongoDB mongosh < 2.3.9 2.3.9

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
npm mongosh < 2.3.9 2.3.9 GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

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