CVE-2026-18703

medium

Assigned by CNA: mongodb

Published 2026-08-11 · Modified 2026-08-11

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CVSS v3

4.2

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:N

CVSS v4 NEW

2.3

CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:L/UI:N/VC:L/VI:L/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

VIR risk

4.2

Description

An issue in MongoDB Server could allow a party with a valid client certificate and a corresponding user account to authenticate using a certificate-based authentication method, even when an administrator has configured the server to restrict authentication to other mechanisms. This could allow authentication through a method the administrator intended to disable.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood

52%

Patch ETA

—

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

The vendor-content worker queues fetches as references arrive (check back in a few minutes). Or — if you've already worked around this in production — publish your fix to the community-verified tier.

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References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-127863

CWEs

CWE-863

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.