Answer in brief
CVE-2026-120820 records a Medium severity (CVSS 5.3) vulnerability in Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in MongoDB Server Per-Namespace Encrypted-Field Statistics Table Leads to Denial of Service. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. The current feed maps MongoDB/MongoDB Server (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
Analysis pending evidence review
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CVSS is 5.3. The current sources do not mark it as known exploited. Treat this as a source-backed prioritization signal, not a statement about your environment.
Analysis status
Analysis pending evidence review
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The current feed maps MongoDB/MongoDB Server (generic). Check affected ranges and fixed versions before updating.
| Package | Affected range | Fixed version |
|---|---|---|
| MongoDB/MongoDB Servergeneric | >=9.0.0 <9.0.7 || >=8.3.0 <8.3.16 || >=8.0.0 <8.0.37 | 9.0.7, 8.3.16, 8.0.37 |
Published upstream
Nov 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordSource modified
Nov 10, 2026
Evidence: source:cvelist:source_dates:source-dates:recordFirst seen by HOL
Nov 10, 2026
MongoDB Server maintains an in-memory table of per-namespace statistics for operations that carry encrypted-field information. Entries are created for any namespace supplied in a request, with no limit on the number of entries and no way to remove entries that never corresponded to a real collection. A user with basic read privileges who repeatedly issues ordinary read commands referencing arbitrary namespace names may cause the server process to retain steadily increasing amounts of memory and to slow down on the affected code path; the memory is reclaimed only by restarting the process.
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