CVE-2025-1755

moderate-risk
Published 2025-02-27

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1

Do I need to act?

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0.05% chance of exploitation
EPSS score — low exploit probability
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Not on CISA KEV list
No confirmed active exploitation reported to CISA
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Patch status unknown
Check vendor advisories for fix availability and mitigation guidance
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CVSS 7.5/10 High
LOCAL / HIGH complexity

Affected Products (5)

Compass

Affected Vendors

Redhat Mongodb

References (2)

Issue Tracking https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/COMPASS-9058
Third Party Advisory https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2025:1755.html
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/ 100
moderate-risk
Severity 20/34 · Moderate
Exploitability 0/34 · Minimal
Exposure 12/34 · Low