CVE-2025-23061 (GCVE-0-2025-23061)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-01-15 00:00 – Updated: 2025-01-15 15:11
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
Mongoose before 8.9.5 can improperly use a nested $where filter with a populate() match, leading to search injection. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-53900.
Severity
9 (Critical)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: total
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-01-15 15:10 UTC
CWE
- CWE-94 - Improper Control of Generation of Code ('Code Injection')
Assigner
References
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| mongoosejs | Mongoose |
Affected:
6.0.0 , < 6.13.6
(semver)
Affected: 7.0.0 , < 7.8.4 (semver) Affected: 8.0.0 , < 8.9.5 (semver) cpe:2.3:a:mongoosejs:mongoose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mongoosejs:mongoose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* cpe:2.3:a:mongoosejs:mongoose:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
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