Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information Affecting mongodb package, versions [7.0.0-alpha,7.0.35)[8.0.0-alpha,8.0.24)[8.2.0-alpha,8.2.10)[8.3.0-alpha0,8.3.3)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
high
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.1% (2nd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-MONGODB-17660896
  • published28 Jun 2026
  • disclosed9 Jun 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 9 Jun 2026

CVE-2026-9741  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-319  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade mongodb to version 7.0.35, 8.0.24, 8.2.10, 8.3.3 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Cleartext Transmission of Sensitive Information due to the improper handling of literal values in the $vectorSearch aggregation stage filter expressions. An attacker can access sensitive information by intercepting plaintext values that should have been encrypted when transmitted to the server.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1