CVE-2026-9741

Client side encryption fails to encrypt values in a $vectorSearch

State: Published
Severity: 7.1 High
Published: Jun 9, 2026
Updated: Jun 10, 2026
Reserved: May 27, 2026

Description

A bug in query analysis processing of the $vectorSearch aggregation stage for Queryable Encryption (QE) or Client-Side Field Level Encryption (CSFLE) results in literal values for encrypted fields within the $vectorSearch stage filter expressions to be sent to the server as plaintext instead of ciphertext.

Scores

CVSS	Score	Vector	Source
4.0	7.1 High	CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:H/VI:N/VA:N/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N	mongodb
3.1	6.5 Medium	CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:N	mongodb

Weaknesses

CWE-319 Cleartext transmission of sensitive information

Affected Products

Product	Versions
MongoDB ServerMongoDB	8.3.0 to before 8.3.3Affected 8.2.0 to before 8.2.10Affected 8.0.0 to before 8.0.24Affected 7.0.0 to before 7.0.35Affected

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-123507

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