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high7.1

CVE-2026-18687

MongoDB Server's handling of a Queryable Encryption maintenance operation did not properly validate certain request parameters against the collection's encrypt…

Impact

MongoDB Server's handling of a Queryable Encryption maintenance operation did not properly validate certain request parameters against the collection's encrypted field configuration before use. An authenticated user with readWrite privileges could submit a specially formed request that leads to a server crash or excessive internal writes, resulting in resource exhaustion and corruption of encrypted index data.

Affected products

VendorProductAffected versions
MongodbMongodb
from 8.0.0 before 8.0.29
from 8.2.0 through 8.2.12
from 8.3.0 before 8.3.8
Versions 9.0.0, 9.1.0

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