Medium severity5.3NVD Advisory· Published Mar 30, 2026· Updated Apr 2, 2026
CVE-2026-5170
CVE-2026-5170
Description
A user with access to the cluster with a limited set of privilege actions can trigger a crash of a mongod process during the limited and unpredictable window when the cluster is being promoted from a replica set to a sharded cluster. This may cause a denial of service by taking down the primary of the replica set.
This issue affects MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.2, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions between 8.0.18, MongoDB Server v7.0 versions between 7.0.31.
Affected products
1Patches
0No patches discovered yet.
Vulnerability mechanics
AI mechanics synthesis has not run for this CVE yet.
References
1- jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-101758nvdPatchVendor Advisory
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