Vulnerabilities / CVE-2025-23061

critical

CVE-2025-23061

Mongoose search injection vulnerability

Published Modified CWE 94
In the Trivy database since at least 24 Oct 2026, 07:11 UTCWhen it arrived before that build is not recorded.

Severity by source

NVD9.8CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
GHSA9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H
Bitnami9.1CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Trivy's own label is CRITICAL. Rated critical by NVD, GHSA, Bitnami.

Description

Mongoose before 8.9.5 can improperly use a nested $where filter with a populate() match, leading to search injection. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-53900.

Affected packages and fixed versions

SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databasemongoose6.13.6, 7.8.4, 8.9.5
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmmongoose8.9.5, 7.8.4, 6.13.6
seal npm::Seal Security Database@seal-security/mongoose, mongoose5.3.3-sp999
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SourcePackageFixed in
bitnami::Bitnami Vulnerability Databasemongoose6.13.6, 7.8.4, 8.9.5
npm::GitHub Security Advisory npmmongoose8.9.5, 7.8.4, 6.13.6
seal npm::Seal Security Database@seal-security/mongoose5.3.3-sp999
seal npm::Seal Security Databasemongoose5.3.3-sp999

References

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