An issue in MongoDB Server could allow an authenticated user with limited, database-scoped privileges to modify diagnostic logging settings that affect the entire server rather than just the intended database. This could allow suppression of diagnostic logging server-wide, potentially obscuring unauthorized activity, or degrade operational monitoring by causing excessive log volume.
CVE-2026-18702
Score 6.4 from GitHub Security Advisory published 2026-08-11. a secondary CVSS source baseline 6.4; sources differ by 0.0.
- Lower severity and no public exploit yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 6.4
- EG Score
- 6.4(high)
- EG Risk
- 29(Track)EG Risk 29/100SSVC: Track
EG Risk is EchelonGraph's 0–100 priority score: it fuses intrinsic severity with real-world exploitation and automatability so you can rank equal-severity CVEs and fix the most dangerous first. Higher = act sooner. Distinct from the 0–10 EG Score (severity).
How it’s computedSeverity64% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 11%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 11, 2026
Last Modified
August 11, 2026
Advisory Details (1)
Auto-updated Aug 11, 2026Vendor Advisories for CVE-2026-18702(1)
These vendors published their own advisory mentioning this CVE — often with vendor-specific remediation steps + affected product lists not in NVD.
Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 18× in last 7d / 28× in last 30d)
Each row is a source pipeline that fetched or updated this CVE on that date, with what changed. For example, "NVD update" means NVD published or revised its analysis for this CVE; "MITRE cvelistV5" means we ingested or refreshed it from the CNA feed. Most recent first.
- 2026-08-20 22:55 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-20 22:19 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 22:12 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-19 22:12 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-19 17:03 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-18 22:02 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-18 22:02 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-18 13:48 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-17 21:54 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-17 21:54 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-17 13:47 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 21:48 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-16 21:48 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-16 14:56 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-16 02:14 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-15 21:42 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-14 21:36 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-14 21:36 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-13 22:00 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-13 21:30 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 21:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-12 21:24 UTCGHSA enrichment
- 2026-08-12 13:50 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-11 21:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 20:31 UTCEG score recompute
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- 2026-08-11 19:18 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 19:01 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-11 19:01 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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