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CVE-2024-8013: CSFLE and Queryable Encryption self-lookup may fail to encrypt values in subpipelines
- Severity: low (CVSS 3.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.1% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2024-10-28 · updated 2026-06-17
- Weakness: CWE-319
Description
A bug in query analysis of certain complex self-referential $lookup subpipelines may result in literal values in expressions for encrypted fields to be sent to the server as plaintext instead of ciphertext. Should this occur, no documents would be returned or written. This issue affects mongocryptd binary (v5.0 versions prior to 5.0.29, v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.17, v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.12 and v7.3 versions prior to 7.3.4) and mongo_crypt_v1.so shared libraries (v6.0 versions prior to 6.0.17, v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.12 and v7.3 versions prior to 7.3.4) released alongside MongoDB Enterprise Server versions.
Affected products
- MongoDB Inc Mongo_crypt_v1.so: from 6.0.0 before 6.0.17; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.12; from 7.3.0 before 7.3.4 — fixed in 6.0.17, 7.0.12, 7.3.4
- MongoDB Inc mongocryptd: from 5.0.0 before 5.0.29; from 6.0.0 before 6.0.17; from 7.0.0 before 7.0.12; from 7.3.0 before 7.3.4 — fixed in 5.0.29, 6.0.17, 7.0.12, 7.3.4
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: MongoDB Inc Mongo_crypt_v1.so 6.0.17, 7.0.12, 7.3.4; MongoDB Inc mongocryptd 5.0.29, 6.0.17, 7.0.12, 7.3.4. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
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