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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD7.2 High

CVE-2026-18712

Improper Authorization in MongoDB Queryable Encryption Maintenance Operations Allows Unauthorized Modification of Other Collections

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Status
Published
Published
Updated
Assigning organization
mongodb

Description

An issue in MongoDB Server's Queryable Encryption maintenance operations could allow an authenticated user with privileges on one encrypted collection to cause unauthorized modification or destruction of data belonging to a different collection. This is due to insufficient validation of certain internal metadata references before they are used to perform operations on other namespaces.

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

  • 8.3.0 to < 8.3.8affected
  • 8.0 to < 8.0.29affected
  • 7.0 to < 7.0.40affected

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