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CVE-2026-5170

Users could trigger a crash of mongod primaries during promotion to sharded

Published
Last modified
published
Not listed in CISA KEV
Fix
Fixed in 8.2.2, 8.0.18, 7.0.31
None on Exploit-DB, Metasploit or GitHub
  • Exploitation: none
  • Automatable: no
  • Technical impact: partial

Summary

A user with access to the cluster with a limited set of privilege actions can trigger a crash of a mongod process during the limited and unpredictable window when the cluster is being promoted from a replica set to a sharded cluster. This may cause a denial of service by taking down the primary of the replica set. This issue affects MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.2, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions between 8.0.18, MongoDB Server v7.0 versions between 7.0.31.

Timeline

  1. CVE published
  2. CISA SSVC assessment

    Exploitation: none · Automatable: no · Technical impact: partial

  3. Record last updated

Affected versions

  • MongoDB MongoDB Server

    From 8.2 · fixed in 8.2.2; From 8.0 · fixed in 8.0.18; From 7.0 · fixed in 7.0.31

References 1

jira.mongodb.org