Vulnerability · Published May 7, 2026 · Assigned by mongodb

CVE-2026-8063Post-auth null pointer dereference when aggregating against a view with empty search pipeline

Medium 6.5

In plain English

A medium-severity null pointer dereference in MongoDB Server from MongoDB Inc.. There are no confirmed reports of exploitation so far. The chance it is exploited in the next 30 days is estimated at 0.2% (higher than 14% of all known vulnerabilities).

Severity (CVSS 3.1)6.5Medium

Exploit odds (30 days)0.2%top 86.2% of all CVEs

Exploited in the wildNo reportsCISA SSVC: none

Attack toolingNoneno public tooling known

Official description

An authenticated user can crash mongod when running $rankFusion or $scoreFusion with an empty pipeline on a view. When resolving a view, the server inspects the aggregation pipeline to determine whether it begins with an Atlas Search stage. For $rankFusion and $scoreFusion, this inspection reads the first element on each stage’s input pipeline array without first verifying that the array is non-empty. Supplying an empty pipeline causes a null pointer dereference and crashes the server. This issue affects MongoDB Server 8.2 versions prior to 8.2.7.

Affected products (as reported)

Vendor	Product	Versions
MongoDB Inc.	MongoDB Server	8.2.0 – before 8.2.7

Weakness: CWE-476 · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

References

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-121851 issue-tracking