The MongoDB client library for PHP does not sufficiently sanitize special elements in application-supplied namespace identifiers before using them to construct the target namespace for database operations. An application that incorporates untrusted text into these identifiers may have operations silently directed at a different storage location than the one the application intended.
CVE-2026-81525
This high-severity CVE scores 8.1 under a secondary CVSS source (NVD's own analysis pending). EPSS exploit probability: 0.3%, top 81% of all CVEs by exploit prediction. GitHub Security Advisory data not yet ingested — confidence will rise once GHSA publishes (typical lag: hours to days for open-source ecosystem CVEs; never for infrastructure-only CVEs).
- High severity, but no confirmed exploitation yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- 8.1
- EG Score
- 8.1(medium)
- EG Risk
- 37(Track)EG Risk 37/100SSVC: 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 computedSeverity81% × 45%Exploitation0% × 40%Automatability0% × 15%Action: Routine — remediate on your standard cadence. - EPSS PROB
- 0%
- EPSS %ILE
- 19%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
August 27, 2026
Last Modified
August 28, 2026
Advisory Details (2)
Auto-updated Aug 27, 20261.21.7
Patch available: mongodb/mongo-php-driver 1.21.7
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-driver/releases/tag/1.21.72.4.1
Patch available: mongodb/mongo-php-library 2.4.1
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-php-library/releases/tag/2.4.1Weakness Classification(1)
MITRE Common Weakness Enumeration — the root-cause categories this CVE belongs to.
Data Freshness Timeline
(refreshed 10× in last 7d / 10× 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.
- 2026-08-30 01:22 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-29 10:22 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-28 21:42 UTCEPSS rescore
- 2026-08-28 20:42 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-28 19:46 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-28 00:32 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 23:24 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 20:26 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 20:15 UTCEG score recompute
- 2026-08-27 20:13 UTCMITRE cvelistV5first tracked
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