Vulnerability from bitnami_vulndb
Published
2025-09-25 08:46
Modified
2025-10-06 00:06
Summary
Details

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.

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{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Bitnami",
        "name": "mongoose",
        "purl": "pkg:bitnami/mongoose"
      },
      "ranges": [
        {
          "events": [
            {
              "introduced": "6.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "6.13.6"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "7.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "7.8.4"
            },
            {
              "introduced": "8.0.0"
            },
            {
              "fixed": "8.9.5"
            }
          ],
          "type": "SEMVER"
        }
      ],
      "severity": [
        {
          "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
          "type": "CVSS_V3"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2025-23061"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cpes": [
      "cpe:2.3:a:mongoosejs:mongoose:*:*:*:*:*:node.js:*:*"
    ],
    "severity": "Critical"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "BIT-mongoose-2025-23061",
  "modified": "2025-10-06T00:06:00.502Z",
  "published": "2025-09-25T08:46:40.232Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/commit/64a9f9706f2428c49e0cfb8e223065acc645f7bc"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/releases/tag/8.9.5"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-23061"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose?activeTab=versions"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.6.2"
}


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