CVE-2025-1692: MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

February 27, 2025

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9.

References

github.com/advisories/GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37
github.com/mongodb-js/mongosh
jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025
nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1692

Code Behaviors & Features

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