MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

Description

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.

Recommendation

Update the mongosh package to the latest compatible version. Followings are version details:

• Affected version(s): < 2.3.9
• Patched version(s): 2.3.9

References

• GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37
• jira.mongodb.org
• CVE-2025-1692
• CWE-150
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

Related Issues

• @sveltejs/kit vulnerable to Cross-site Scripting via tracked search_params - CVE-2025-32388
• mongosh vulnerable to local privilege escalation - CVE-2025-1756
• MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character Injection via shell output - CVE-2025-1693
• MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to Control Character Injection via autocomplete - CVE-2025-1691

Tags:

npm

mongosh