MongoDB Server up to 7.0.25/8.0.15/8.2.1 on Windows/Apple certificate validation

Summaryinfo

A vulnerability identified as critical has been detected in MongoDB Server up to 7.0.25/8.0.15/8.2.1 on Windows/Apple. This impacts an unknown function. The manipulation leads to certificate validation. This vulnerability is traded as CVE-2025-12893. It is possible to initiate the attack remotely. There is no exploit available. You should upgrade the affected component.

Detailsinfo

A vulnerability was found in MongoDB Server up to 7.0.25/8.0.15/8.2.1 on Windows/Apple and classified as problematic. This issue affects some unknown functionality. The manipulation with an unknown input leads to a certificate validation vulnerability. Using CWE to declare the problem leads to CWE-295. The product does not validate, or incorrectly validates, a certificate. Impacted is integrity. The summary by CVE is:

Clients may successfully perform a TLS handshake with a MongoDB server despite presenting a client certificate not aligning with the documented Extended Key Usage (EKU) requirements. A certificate that specifies extendedKeyUsage but is missing extendedKeyUsage = clientAuth may still be successfully authenticated via the TLS handshake as a client. This issue is specific to MongoDB servers running on Windows or Apple as the expected validation behavior functions correctly on Linux systems. Additionally, MongoDB servers may successfully establish egress TLS connections with servers that present server certificates not aligning with the documented Extended Key Usage (EKU) requirements. A certificate that specifies extendedKeyUsage but is missing extendedKeyUsage = serverAuth may still be successfully authenticated via the TLS handshake as a server. This issue is specific to MongoDB servers running on Apple as the expected validation behavior functions correctly on both Linux and Windows systems. This vulnerability affects MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.26, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.16 and MongoDB Server v8.2 versions prior to 8.2.2

It is possible to read the advisory at jira.mongodb.org. The identification of this vulnerability is CVE-2025-12893 since 11/07/2025. The exploitation is known to be difficult. The attack may be initiated remotely. The technical details are unknown and an exploit is not publicly available. The attack technique deployed by this issue is T1587.003 according to MITRE ATT&CK.

The vulnerability scanner Nessus provides a plugin with the ID 276953 (Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2025-12893), which helps to determine the existence of the flaw in a target environment.

Upgrading to version 7.0.26, 8.0.16 or 8.2.2 eliminates this vulnerability.

The vulnerability is also documented in the databases at Tenable (276953) and EUVD (EUVD-2025-199532). Statistical analysis made it clear that VulDB provides the best quality for vulnerability data.

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Type

• Database Software

Vendor

• MongoDB

Name

• Server

Version

• 7.0.0
• 7.0.1
• 7.0.2
• 7.0.3
• 7.0.4
• 7.0.5
• 7.0.6
• 7.0.7
• 7.0.8
• 7.0.9
• 7.0.10
• 7.0.11
• 7.0.12
• 7.0.13
• 7.0.14
• 7.0.15
• 7.0.16
• 7.0.17
• 7.0.18
• 7.0.19
• 7.0.20
• 7.0.21
• 7.0.22
• 7.0.23
• 7.0.24
• 7.0.25
• 8.0.0
• 8.0.1
• 8.0.2
• 8.0.3
• 8.0.4
• 8.0.5
• 8.0.6
• 8.0.7
• 8.0.8
• 8.0.9
• 8.0.10
• 8.0.11
• 8.0.12
• 8.0.13
• 8.0.14
• 8.0.15
• 8.2.0
• 8.2.1

License

• open-source

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