Memory exhaustion via abandoned far-future read-concern waiters in disaggregated storage

published 2026-11-10 yesterday modified 2026-11-10 yesterday also EUVD-2026-122844

cvss: 7.5; version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev: Not listed; not in CISA's catalog
epss: 0.5%; EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 41%
public exploits: 0; none known

A replica-set database server node does not limit or reclaim internal wait records created while handling a client-supplied read option that names a point in time the node will never reach. A party with network access and no credentials can cause these records to accumulate without bound and persist after the requests end, which may make the server run out of memory and become unavailable.

Patch / fix

fixed in 1

MongoDB MongoDB Server 4.4.32, 5.0.35, 6.0.30, 7.0.48, 8.0.37, 8.3.16, 9.0.7

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Exploit prediction

0.48% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 41% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-11).

CVSS scores

assigned by	version	score	vector
CNA	4.0	8.7	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA	3.1	7.5	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CNA	4.0	8.7	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X

Affected products

MongoDB MongoDB Server

Classification

Weakness

CWE-770 Allocation of Resources Without Limits or Throttling

Technology feeds

MongoDB rss critical rss

References

jira.mongodb.org /browse/SERVER-138119

Sources

CVE List CVE-2026-120828
NVD CVE-2026-120828

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