CVE-2026-93761 (GCVE-0-2026-93761)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2026-09-18 17:20
Modified
2026-09-19 14:11
Severity ?
8.7 (High) - CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
7.5 (High) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1333 - Inefficient Regular Expression Complexity
Summary
An inefficient regular expression complexity issue in the in-memory query evaluation component of the Mongoid library may allow an unauthenticated party to cause excessive processing within an embedding application process. Applications that place user-supplied text into a pattern-matching query condition on an embedded association may become unresponsive.
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
MongoDB Inc. Mongoid Version: 7.2.0   ≤ 7.2.6
Version: 7.3.0   ≤ 7.3.5
Version: 7.4.0   ≤ 7.4.3
Version: 7.5.0   ≤ 7.5.4
Version: 7.6.0   ≤ 7.6.1
Version: 8.0.0   ≤ 8.0.12
Version: 8.1.0   ≤ 8.1.12
Version: 9.0.0   ≤ 9.0.11
Version: 9.1.0
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