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SCA: security update for mongosh (GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37)

high Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421006

Description

There are packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability referenced in the following CVE:

 - 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 (CVE-2025-1692)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-973h-3x6p-qg37

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 421006

Version: Revision 1.14

Type: Local

Family: SCA Checks

Published: 2/27/2025

Updated: 7/2/2026

Supported Sensors: Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 4.9

Percentile: 57.58

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Medium

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.4

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1692

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.8

Temporal Score: 7.7

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

Vulnerability Information

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Vulnerability Publication Date: 2/27/2025

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2025-1692

cwe: CWE-150