CVE-2025-1755CWE-426

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows

High · published February 27, 2025

CVSS v3.1
7.5
EPSS
0%
Percentile
3.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.1
7.5 · HIGH
Vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00147 · 3.6th percentile
Weakness
CWE-426 · Untrusted Search Path
Published
2025-02-27T15:24Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 27 FEB 15:24Z
    MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows
    cvelistv5