CVE-2025-1755 - CVE House

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Status published High CVE-2025-1755

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows

7.5 CVSS

Vulnerability Description

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

Impact Analysis

Refer to official advisory for detailed impact metrics.

Remediation

Ensure systems are updated to the latest vendor-supplied patch levels.

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Credits & Attribution

The following person or organization is credited with identifying this vulnerability, as recorded in the NVD database:

T. Doğa Gelişli

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/COMPASS-9058

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Affected Vendor

MongoDB Inc

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Affected Software

MongoDB Compass

Vulnerable Versions:

0

Timeline

Official Publish: February 27th, 2025

Last Modified: February 27th, 2025

Added to House: July 22nd, 2026

CVSS Vectors

V3: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses (CWE)

MITRE ATT&CK TTPs

T1574 Hijack Execution Flow

Privilege Escalation

T1036 Masquerading

Defense Evasion

T1543 Create or Modify System Process

T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

T1569 System Services