CVE-2026-9742: MongoDB

Medium severity, CVSS 5.9. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

When OIDC authentication is enabled in configuration, clients may set specific values in the "mechanism" parameter of the "authenticate" command that lead to server crash. The authenticate command is accessible to unauthenticated clients, leading to pre-auth denial-of-service in affected product configurations.

Affected products

• MongoDB MongoDB: from 8.2.0, before 8.2.10 (fixed in 8.2.10); from 8.3.0, before 8.3.3 (fixed in 8.3.3)

Published 2026-06-09. Last modified 2026-07-23.