What is GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3?

GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3 is a security advisory published by GitHub Security Advisories with High severity. MongoDB Compass improperly escapes certain BSON values when converting a stored view’s...

Which CVE IDs does GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3 cover?

GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3 covers the following CVE IDs: CVE-2026-113870. Each CVE has its own detail page on EchelonGraph Pulse with the synthesized EG score.

What is the CVSS v3 score of GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3?

GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3 has a CVSS v3 base score of 8.8, published by GitHub Security Advisories.

GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3HighCVSS 8.8

MongoDB Compass improperly escapes certain BSON values when converting a stored view’s...

Vendor

GitHub Security Advisories

Published

October 21, 2026

Last Modified

October 21, 2026

🔗 CVE IDs covered (1)

CVE-2026-113870 →

📋 Description

MongoDB Compass improperly escapes certain BSON values when converting a stored view’s aggregation pipeline into editable source. When a user connects to a MongoDB deployment containing a specially crafted view and opens that view for editing, the values can cause arbitrary code to execute with the privileges of the user running Compass.

🔗 References (3)

https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-113870
https://www.mongodb.com/docs/compass/release-notes/#mongodb-compass-14915
https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pf8m-jx52-cwh3