Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling Affecting mongodb package, versions [7.0.0-alpha,7.0.34)[8.0.0-alpha,8.0.23)[8.2.0-alpha,8.2.9)[8.3.0-alpha0,8.3.2)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.26% (18th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MONGODB-16677237
  • published14 May 2026
  • disclosed13 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 13 May 2026

CVE-2026-8202  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-770  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mongodb to version 7.0.34, 8.0.23, 8.2.9, 8.3.2 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling via the $trim, $ltrim, or $rtrim aggregation operators when a densely populated chars mask and a large input string are used. An attacker can cause excessive CPU utilization by submitting specially crafted aggregation queries.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1