CVE-2025-10491

7.8 highEPSS 0.1%

High (7.8). EPSS 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The MongoDB Windows installation MSI may leave ACLs unset on custom installation directories allowing a local attacker to introduce executable code to MongoDB's process via DLL hijacking. This issue affects MongoDB Server v6.0 version prior to 6.0.25, MongoDB Server v7.0 version prior to 7.0.21 and MongoDB Server v8.0 version prior to 8.0.5

Severity

CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 1% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE: CWE-284
Published: 2025-09-15
Modified: 2026-06-17
Record from: the NVD, synced 2026-10-19

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-51366

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