CVE-2025-1756
mongosh vulnerable to local privilege escalation
7.5
HIGH
CVSS 3.1
EPSS 0.04%
Description
mongosh may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privilege, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects mongosh prior to 2.3.0.
How to fix CVE-2025-1756
To remediate CVE-2025-1756, upgrade the affected package to a fixed version below.
- —upgrade to 2.3.0 or later
Is CVE-2025-1756 being exploited?
Low — EPSS is 0.0%, meaning exploitation activity has not been observed at scale.
Affected packages (1)
- from 0, < 2.3.0
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | HIGH7.5 | CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H |