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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD6.3 Medium

CVE-2026-13078

Local File Disclosure in MongoDB Server via MozJS Scripting Engine Module Loader

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
mongodb

Description

A vulnerability was discovered in MongoDB Server where the server-side MozJS scripting engine unconditionally registered a module loading hook that enables JavaScript calls to read arbitrary files from the host filesystem using the mongod process's privileges. An authenticated user could exploit this through crafted aggregation pipeline commands to read sensitive files accessible to the MongoDB server process.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

MongoDB MongoDB Server

Default version status: unaffected

  • 7.0 to < 7.0.39affected
  • 8.0 to < 8.0.28affected
  • 8.2.0 to < 8.2.12affected
  • 8.3.0 to < 8.3.7affected

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