Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting mongodb package, versions [,7.0.29)[8.0.0-alpha,8.0.18)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.24% (16th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MONGODB-15265429
  • published11 Feb 2026
  • disclosed10 Feb 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 10 Feb 2026

CVE-2026-1847  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mongodb to version 7.0.29, 8.0.18 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling in the handling of wire messages. An attacker can cause the server to crash and disrupt replication by inserting specially crafted large documents into a replica set, which prevents secondaries from fetching the oplog from the primary.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1