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MongoDBCVE-2026-93761

MongoDB Mongoid: regular expression denial of service

High8.7CVE-2026-93761 · Published Sep 18, 2026 · updated Sep 24, 2026

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.

MongoDB advisory

Affected versions

PackageAffectedFixed in
Mongoid
Product
>= 7.2.0, <= 7.2.6No fix yet
>= 7.3.0, <= 7.3.5No fix yet
>= 7.4.0, <= 7.4.3No fix yet
>= 7.5.0, <= 7.5.4No fix yet
Details and references
CVSS 4.0
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/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
Severity from
the vendor (its own CVE record or advisory)
Weakness
CWE-1333

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