Medium · published July 23, 2026
An authenticated user can cause excessive CPU consumption or out-of-memory conditions on a MongoDB server by sending a crafted Queryable Encryption find payload containing an unvalidated field used to control an internal computation loop. The resulting resource exhaustion degrades availability for other operations.
| Product | Versions | Fixed in |
|---|---|---|
| mongodb/mongodb | ≥ 7.0.0, < 7.0.39 | 7.0.39 |
| mongodb/mongodb | ≥ 8.0.0, < 8.0.28 | 8.0.28 |
| mongodb/mongodb | ≥ 8.2.0, < 8.2.12 | 8.2.12 |
| mongodb/mongodb | ≥ 8.3.0, < 8.3.7 | 8.3.7 |