Control Character Injection

Mongosh is vulnerable to Control Character Injection. The vulnerability is due to improper input handling due to an attacker controlling the autocompletion feature, allowing the execution of obfuscated malicious text when a user presses ‘tab’ to autocomplete input...

CVE-2025-1691: Improper Neutralization of Special Elements in Output Used by a Downstream Component

The MongoDB Shell may be susceptible to control character injection where an attacker with control of the mongosh autocomplete feature, can use the autocompletion feature to input and run obfuscated malicious text. This requires user interaction in the form of the user using ‘tab’ to autocomplete...