CVE-2026-120820
Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in MongoDB Server Per-Namespace Encrypted-Field Statistics Table Leads to Denial of Service
CVSS Score
4.3
EPSS Score
0.0%
EPSS Percentile
0th
MongoDB Server maintains an in-memory table of per-namespace statistics for operations that carry encrypted-field information. Entries are created for any namespace supplied in a request, with no limit on the number of entries and no way to remove entries that never corresponded to a real collection. A user with basic read privileges who repeatedly issues ordinary read commands referencing arbitrary namespace names may cause the server process to retain steadily increasing amounts of memory and to slow down on the affected code path; the memory is reclaimed only by restarting the process.
| CWE | CWE-770 |
| Vendor | mongodb |
| Product | mongodb server |
| Ecosystems | |
| Industries | Technology |
| Published | Nov 10, 2026 |
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CVSS v3 Breakdown
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L Attack Vector
Network
Attack Complexity
Low
Privileges Required
Low
User Interaction
None
Scope
Unchanged
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
Low
Affected Versions
MongoDB / MongoDB Server
9.0.0 < 9.0.7 8.3.0 < 8.3.16 8.0.0 < 8.0.37