CVE 7.1 HIGH

Calling createIndex with certain index types can crash mongod_CVE-2026-8843

7.1 / 10
HIGH
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

Description

Creating a "2dsphere_bucket" index on a non-timeseries bucket collection will succeed, but any subsequent attempt to insert a document which triggers updating that index will crash the server. A similar issue occurs when creating "queryable_encrypted_range" indices.

This issue affects MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.32, v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.21 and v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.6

Basic Information

ID CVE-2026-8843
Source mongodb
Published May 18, 2026 at 15:40

Affected Product

Vendor MongoDB, Inc.
Product MongoDB Server
Version 7.0
Affected Versions MongoDB, Inc. MongoDB Server 7.0
MongoDB, Inc. MongoDB Server 8.0
MongoDB, Inc. MongoDB Server 8.2

CWE Classification

References

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