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SCA: security update for mongosh (GHSA-r95j-4jvf-mrrw)

medium Tenable Cloud Security Plugin ID 421007

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 over
 the database cluster contents can inject control characters into the shell output. This may result in the
 display of falsified messages that appear to originate from mongosh or the underlying operating system,
 potentially misleading users into executing unsafe actions. The vulnerability is exploitable only when
 mongosh is connected to a cluster that is partially or fully controlled by an attacker. This issue affects
 mongosh versions prior to 2.3.9 (CVE-2025-1693)

See Also

https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-r95j-4jvf-mrrw

Plugin Details

Severity: Medium

ID: 421007

Version: Revision 1.13

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: 4.3

Percentile: 53.37

Vendor

Vendor Severity: Low

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 5.3

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

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2025-1693

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: Medium

Base Score: 6.8

Temporal Score: 5.9

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:N/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-2025-1693

cwe: CWE-150