CVE-2025-23061

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

mongoosejs · Mongoose

CVSS v3.1 NVD

9.8 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v3.1 MITRE

9.0 CRITICALCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

EPSS

7.28% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 94th percentile

Nuclei

critical · CWE-94

Published

2025-01-15

Proof-of-concept exploits (1)

• open-flaw/CVE-2025-230610★ · 2025-12-11

Nuclei templates (1)

• projectdiscovery/nuclei-templates/blob/main/http/cves/2025/CVE-2025-23061.yaml

Security advisories

• advisories/GHSA-vg7j-7cwx-8wgw
• Automattic/mongoose/commit/64a9f9706f2428c49e0cfb8e223065acc645f7bc
• https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose?activeTab=versions

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2017-11499
• CVE-2020-8158
• CVE-2022-33171
• CVE-2024-53900
• CVE-2025-12758
• CVE-2025-49844