CVE-2026-8199

Publication date 13 May 2026

Last updated 11 September 2026

Ubuntu priority

Cvss 3 Severity Score

Description

An authenticated user can cause excess memory usage via bitwise match expression AST processing of $bitsAllSet, $bitsAnySet, $bitsAllClear, and $bitsAnyClear. This contributes to memory pressure and may lead to availability loss by OOM. This issue impacts MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.34, v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.23, v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.9 and v8.3 versions prior to 8.3.2.

Read the notes from the security team

Status

Show unmaintained releases

Package	Ubuntu Release	Status
mongodb	26.04 LTS resolute	Not in release
	25.10 questing	Not in release
	24.04 LTS noble	Not in release
	22.04 LTS jammy	Not in release
	20.04 LTS focal	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	18.04 LTS bionic	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	16.04 LTS xenial	Vulnerable, fix deferred
	14.04 LTS trusty	Vulnerable, fix deferred

Notes

john-breton

The available patch was created after MongoDB licensing changes and we cannot use it. Marking as deferred in the hopes an freely usable patch is created by the community.

Patch details

For informational purposes only. We recommend not to cherry-pick updates. How can I get the fixes?

Package	Patch details
mongodb	Upstream: eda4a64

Severity score breakdown

CVSS version:

Base score 7.1 · High

Base metrics

Parameter	Value
Attack vector	Network
Attack complexity	Low
Attack requirements	None
Privileges required	Low
User interaction	None
Vulnerable system - Confidentiality impact	None
Vulnerable system - Integrity impact	None
Vulnerable system - Availability impact	High
Subsequent system - Confidentiality impact	None
Subsequent system - Integrity impact	None
Subsequent system - Availability impact	None

Scores

Parameter	Value
Base score	7.1 · High
Base + Threat score	-
Base + Environmental score	-
Base + Threat + Environmental score	-

Vector: 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

Base score 6.5 · Medium