# CVE-2025-1692: MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting

> CVE-2025-1692: MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection via pasting. CVSS 6.3 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1692
Last updated: 2026-06-17T08:39:36Z

- Published: 2025-02-27 12:37 UTC · Updated: 2026-06-17 08:39 UTC · Assigner: mongodb
- CVSS: 6.3 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- EPSS: 0.28%, 20th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-150

## Description

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the user’s clipboard could manipulate them to paste text into mongosh that evaluates arbitrary code. Control characters in the pasted text can be used to obfuscate malicious code. This issue affects mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9

## Affected vendors and products

- MongoDB Inc: mongosh

## Tracked companies

- [MongoDB Atlas](https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1692)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1692)
- [https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025](https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/MONGOSH-2025)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1692 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2025-1692.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2025-1692 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:50:53.628Z