MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character Injection via shell output

Description

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control over the database cluster contents can inject control characters into the shell output.

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-r95j-4jvf-mrrw
• jira.mongodb.org
• CVE-2025-1693
• CWE-150
• CAPEC-310
• OWASP 2021-A6

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Tags:

npm

mongosh