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CVE-2026-9737: Find command with $meta sort can lead to crash
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-07-22 · updated 2026-10-24
- Weakness: CWE-617
Description
During query planning when reading the sort pattern in raw BSONObj form, in some places we don’t explicitly handle the meta expression case. This may lead to incorrect transformations leading to invariant failure.
Affected products
- MongoDB: from 7.0.0 before 7.0.39; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.28; from 8.2.0 through 8.2.12; from 8.3.0 before 8.3.7; 9.0.0-alpha0, 9.0.0-alpha1, 9.1.0-alpha0 — fixed in 7.0.39, 8.0.28, 8.3.7
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: MongoDB 7.0.39, 8.0.28, 8.3.7. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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