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CVE-2026-9741: Client side encryption fails to encrypt values in a $vectorSearch
- Severity: medium (CVSS 6.5 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: 2026-06-09 · updated 2026-07-23
- Weakness: CWE-319
Description
A bug in query analysis processing of the $vectorSearch aggregation stage for Queryable Encryption (QE) or Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) results in literal values for encrypted fields within the $vectorSearch stage filter expressions to be sent to the server as plaintext instead of ciphertext.
Affected products
- MongoDB: from 7.0.0 before 7.0.35; from 8.0.0 before 8.0.24; from 8.2.0 before 8.2.10; from 8.3.0 before 8.3.3 — fixed in 7.0.35, 8.0.24, 8.2.10, 8.3.3
How to fix
Upgrade to a fixed version: MongoDB 7.0.35, 8.0.24, 8.2.10, 8.3.3. Check the vendor advisory for mitigations.
References
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