Use After Free 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)
Threat Intelligence
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- published14 May 2026
- disclosed13 May 2026
- creditUnknown
Introduced: 13 May 2026
CVE-2026-8201 (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 Use After Free in the mongocryptd process when handling positional projections on encrypted fields. An attacker can cause memory corruption or execute arbitrary code by crafting a malicious Field-Level Encryption query structure. This is only exploitable if the attacker has control over the structure of a client's FLE-related query.