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CVE-2026-82063: Use-After-Free in MongoDB Server Cursor Management Component Leads to Denial of Service
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.3 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: none known
- Published: 2026-09-08 · updated 2026-09-16
- Weakness: CWE-416
Description
A use-after-free security issue in the cursor management component of MongoDB Server allows an authenticated user to cause a denial of service. Under specific timing conditions during cursor operations, a stale pointer to a freed resource may be retained and subsequently dereferenced during cursor cleanup, leading to a server process crash.
Affected products
- MongoDB: from 7.0.0 before 7.0.41; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.30; from 8.3.0 before 8.3.9 — fixed in 7.0.41, 8.0.30, 8.3.9
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: MongoDB 7.0.41, 8.0.30, 8.3.9. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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