Resource exhaustion in MongoDB - CVE-2026-1848
Published: February 13, 2026
Vulnerability identifier: #VU122800
CSH Severity: Medium
CVSS v4: 8.7 [CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N]
CVE-ID: CVE-2026-1848
CWE-ID: CWE-400
Exploitation vector: Remote access
Exploit availability:
No public exploit available
Vulnerability details
The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
The vulnerability exists due to connections received from the proxy port are not count towards total accepted connections. A remote attacker can initiate multiple connections to the database and perform a denial of service attack.
Affected software
MongoDB
How to mitigate CVE-2026-1848
Install updates from vendor's website.
MongoDB - addressed in versions 7.0.29, 8.0.18, 8.2.4