CVE-2025-1691

MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete

Published Feb 27, 2025 CVSS 3.1 · 7.6 High EPSS < 1% KEV · Not listed

Description

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the mongosh autocomplete feature, can use the autocompletion feature to input and run obfuscated malicious text. This requires user interaction in the form of the user using ‘tab’ to autocomplete text that is a prefix of the attacker’s prepared autocompletion. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9.

The vulnerability is exploitable only when mongosh is connected to a cluster that is partially or fully controlled by an attacker.

Affected Products

Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

MongoDB Inc

mongosh

unaffected

Version	Status	Constraints
`0`	affected	< 2.3.9

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

No data.

No data available yet.

Remediation

No solution or workaround provided in the CVE record

Tracking

Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2025-5466	MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete
Github GHSA	GHSA-43g5-2wr2-q7vj	MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete

Metrics

No CVSS v4.0

Attack Vector Network

Attack Complexity High

Privileges Required High

Scope Changed

Confidentiality Impact High

Integrity Impact High

Availability Impact High

User Interaction Required

No CVSS v3.0

No CVSS v2

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

Exploit prediction score: < 1% (0.356% probability within 30 days)

Exploitation none

Automatable no

Technical Impact total

References

Link	Providers
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2024

History

Sep 22, 2025 4:45 PM Affected versions updated View changes

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh::::::::

Mar 4, 2025 3:45 AM Scoring metrics updated View changes

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics		ssvc `{'options': {'Automatable': 'no', 'Exploitation': 'none', 'Technical Impact': 'total'}, 'version': '2.0.3'}`

Feb 27, 2025 3:30 PM Description updated. First appearance in the feed. Affected versions updated. Affected vendors updated View changes

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description	The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the mongosh autocomplete feature, can use the autocompletion feature to input and run obfuscated malicious text. This requires user interaction in the form of the user using ‘tab’ to autocomplete text that is a prefix of the attacker’s prepared autocompletion. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9. The vulnerability is exploitable only when mongosh is connected to a cluster that is partially or fully controlled by an attacker.	The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the mongosh autocomplete feature, can use the autocompletion feature to input and run obfuscated malicious text. This requires user interaction in the form of the user using ‘tab’ to autocomplete text that is a prefix of the attacker’s prepared autocompletion. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9. The vulnerability is exploitable only when mongosh is connected to a cluster that is partially or fully controlled by an attacker.
First Time appeared		Mongodb Mongodb mongosh
CPEs		cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.10.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.10.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.11.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.12.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.12.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.13.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.14.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.15.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.15.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.15.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.2.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.3.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.4.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.4.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.5.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.5.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.7.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.8.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.8.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.8.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:0.9.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.7:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.8:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.1.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.10.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.2.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.2.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.2.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.3.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.4.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.4.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.5.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.5.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.5.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.5.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.5.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.6.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.6.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.6.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.7.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.7.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.8.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.8.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.90:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:1.91:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.0.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.0.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.0.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.1.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.1.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.1.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.1.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.1.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.10:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.11:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.12:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.15:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.5:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.6:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.2.9:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.0:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.1:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.2:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.3:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.4:::::::* cpe:2.3:a:mongodb:mongosh:2.3.8:::::::*
Vendors & Products		Mongodb Mongodb mongosh

Feb 27, 2025 1:00 PM Description updated. Title updated. Weaknesses updated. Added references. Scoring metrics updated View changes

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Description		The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the mongosh autocomplete feature, can use the autocompletion feature to input and run obfuscated malicious text. This requires user interaction in the form of the user using ‘tab’ to autocomplete text that is a prefix of the attacker’s prepared autocompletion. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9. The vulnerability is exploitable only when mongosh is connected to a cluster that is partially or fully controlled by an attacker.
Title		MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete
Weaknesses		CWE-74
References		https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2024
Metrics		cvssV3_1 `{'score': 7.6, 'vector': 'CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H'}`