CVE-2025-23061

CVSS 9 CRITICALEPSS 7.0%CWE-94

Vexday Risk Score

63High priority

SSVC decision (CISA)

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PoC available → attend closely

CVSS 9EPSS 7.0%KEV nãoPoC públicaNuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

15 Jan 2025Published on NVD

11 Dec 2025Public PoC

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

Mongoose before 8.9.5 can improperly use a nested $where filter with a populate() match, leading to search injection. NOTE: this issue exists because of an incomplete fix for CVE-2024-53900.

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Affected products

mongoosejs · Mongoose

public PoCs found — 2

githubgithub.com/open-flaw/CVE-2025-23061★ 0 githubgithub.com/amikanev/CVE-2025-23061-LAB★ 0

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References

https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/commit/64a9f9706f2428c49e0cfb8e223065acc645f7bc https://github.com/Automattic/mongoose/releases/tag/8.9.5 https://www.npmjs.com/package/mongoose?activeTab=versions