CVE-2025-6713
MongoDB Server may be susceptible to privilege escalation due to $mergeCursors stage
- Published
- Jul 7, 2025
- Updated
- Jul 18, 2025
- Assigning CNA
- mongodb
- Evidence observed
- Aug 8, 2026
Primary CVSS
nvd · CVSS 3.1
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:NLow · next 30 days
- Percentile
- 29.3%
- Model date
- Sep 21, 2026
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Summary
An unauthorized user may leverage a specially crafted aggregation pipeline to access data without proper authorization due to improper handling of the $mergeCursors stage in MongoDB Server. This may lead to access to data without further authorisation. This issue affects MongoDB Server MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.7, MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.19 and MongoDB Server v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.22
Sources
1craft aggregation pipeline to access data without proper authorisation due to improper handling of $mergeCursors in MongoDB >v8.0 <8.0.7, >v7.0 <7.0.19, >v6.0 <6.0.22
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