automattic/mongoose · Security
Mongoose search injection vulnerability
- GHSA ID
- GHSA-vg7j-7cwx-8wgw
- CVE ID
- CVE-2025-23061
- Severity
- critical
- Published
- Updated
- CVSS
- 9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS v3
- 9 · CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Description
Mongoose versions prior to 8.9.5, 7.8.4, and 6.13.6 are vulnerable to improper use of the $where operator. This vulnerability arises from the ability of the $where clause to execute arbitrary JavaScript code in MongoDB queries, potentially leading to code injection attacks and unauthorized access or manipulation of database data.
NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-53900.
CWEs
- CWE-94 · Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
References
- https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23061 ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/commit/64a9f9706f2428c49e0cfb8e223065acc645f7bc ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/releases/tag/8.9.5 ↗
- https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose?activeTab=versions ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/compare/6.13.5...6.13.6 ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/compare/7.8.3...7.8.4 ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/compare/8.9.4...8.9.5 ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/releases/tag/6.13.6 ↗
- https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/releases/tag/7.8.4 ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-m7xq-9374-9rvx ↗
- https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-vg7j-7cwx-8wgw ↗