CVE-2025-1692
📋 TL;DR
This vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious code into MongoDB Shell (mongosh) through clipboard manipulation. An attacker controlling the user's clipboard can paste obfuscated code containing control characters that gets executed. This affects users running mongosh versions before 2.3.9.
💻 Affected Systems
- MongoDB Shell (mongosh)
📦 What is this software?
Mongosh by Mongodb
⚠️ Risk & Real-World Impact
Worst Case
Full system compromise through arbitrary code execution, potentially leading to data theft, ransomware deployment, or lateral movement within the network.
Likely Case
Local privilege escalation or unauthorized database access when a user with elevated privileges pastes malicious content into mongosh.
If Mitigated
Limited impact if users follow security best practices and avoid pasting untrusted content into mongosh sessions.
🎯 Exploit Status
Requires social engineering to trick user into pasting malicious content. Control character obfuscation makes detection difficult.
🛠️ Fix & Mitigation
✅ Official Fix
Patch Version: 2.3.9
Vendor Advisory: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025
Restart Required: No
Instructions:
1. Check current mongosh version with 'mongosh --version'. 2. Update to version 2.3.9 or later using your package manager or MongoDB download page. 3. Verify update with 'mongosh --version'.
🔧 Temporary Workarounds
Disable clipboard pasting
allAvoid pasting any content from clipboard into mongosh sessions
Use trusted input only
allOnly paste content from trusted sources and verify content before pasting
🧯 If You Can't Patch
- Implement strict user training about clipboard security risks
- Restrict mongosh usage to trusted environments only
🔍 How to Verify
Check if Vulnerable:
Run 'mongosh --version' and check if version is less than 2.3.9Check Version:
mongosh --versionVerify Fix Applied:
Run 'mongosh --version' and confirm version is 2.3.9 or higher📡 Detection & Monitoring
Log Indicators:
- Unusual mongosh process behavior
- Unexpected database operations from mongosh sessions
Network Indicators:
- Unusual outbound connections from systems running mongosh
SIEM Query:
Process execution where process_name='mongosh' AND (command_line contains unusual characters OR parent_process is suspicious)