CVE-2025-1755: MongoDB Compass

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1

Affected products

• MongoDB Compass: before 1.42.1 (fixed in 1.42.1)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For Arm 64: version 9.0_aarch64 only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux For IBM Z Systems: version 9.0_s390x only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server For Power Little Endian Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 9.0_ppc64le only
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update Services For SAP Solutions: version 9.0 only

Published 2025-02-27. Last modified 2026-06-17.