# CVE-2026-93761: Denial of service via unbounded regex matching in Mongoid's in-memory query matcher

- Severity: CVSS 8.7 (High), CNA
- Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
- CISA SSVC: exploitation=none, automatable=yes, technicalImpact=partial
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2026-09-18 · Updated: 2026-09-19

## Affected

- MongoDB Inc. Mongoid: from 7.2.0, through 7.2.6; from 7.3.0, through 7.3.5; from 7.4.0, through 7.4.3; from 7.5.0, through 7.5.4; from 7.6.0, through 7.6.1; from 8.0.0, through 8.0.12; from 8.1.0, through 8.1.12; from 9.0.0, through 9.0.11

## Description

An inefficient regular expression complexity issue in the in-memory query evaluation component of the Mongoid library may allow an unauthenticated party to cause excessive processing within an embedding application process. Applications that place user-supplied text into a pattern-matching query condition on an embedded association may become unresponsive.

## What to do

- Check your stack: if you ship or depend on MongoDB Inc. Mongoid, no fixed version is listed yet; follow the vendor advisory per the references below.
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## Related

- Browse: [Latest entries](https://cve.now/latest.md)

## References

- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOID-5981

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