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High · 7.5 CVE-2025-1755 EUVD-2025-5457GHSA-25hc-2p68-qc2g

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows

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

Description

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MongoDB MongoDB Compass < 1.42.1 1.42.1

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