# CVE-2025-1755: MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation in Windows

> Local attackers can escalate privileges on Windows by placing a crafted file in a specific directory, affecting MongoDB Compass users.

- **Severity:** High 7.5 (`CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:R/S:C/C:H/I:H/A:H`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** A user has to click or open something
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 27 Feb 2025
- **Updated:** 27 Feb 2025
- **Also known as:** GHSA-25hc-2p68-qc2g

## What is CVE-2025-1755?

CVE-2025-1755 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux for Ibm Z Systems, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.

### Official description

MongoDB Compass may be susceptible to local privilege escalation under certain conditions potentially enabling unauthorized actions on a user's system with elevated privileges, when a crafted file is stored in C:\node_modules\. This issue affects MongoDB Compass prior to 1.42.1

Weakness: CWE-426 (Untrusted Search Path)

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-1755?

It affects 5 products.


Products: Mongodb Compass, Redhat Enterprise Linux for Arm 64, Redhat Enterprise Linux for Ibm Z Systems, Redhat Enterprise Linux Server for Power Little Endian Update Services for Sap Solutions, Redhat Enterprise Linux Update Services for Sap Solutions.

## How do I fix CVE-2025-1755?

No fix has been published for CVE-2025-1755 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2025-1755 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1755 in the wild and no public exploit code.

## Other vulnerabilities in Redhat Enterprise Linux for Ibm Z Systems

- [CVE-2026-14881](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-14881/): Command injection in MongoDB Compass (high 8.4)
- [CVE-2024-3371](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-3371/): Insufficient validation of external input in Compass may enable MITM attacks (high 7.1)
- [CVE-2024-6376](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2024-6376/): ejson shell parser in MongoDB Compass maybe bypassed (high 7.0)
- [CVE-2026-9101](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2026-9101/): Prototype pollution in csv parsing (medium 5.3)
- [CVE-2021-20334](https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2021-20334/): Local privilege escalation in MongoDB Compass for Windows (medium 4.8)

## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2025-1755 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2025-1755 is a high-severity vulnerability in Redhat Enterprise Linux for Ibm Z Systems, published on 27 Feb 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-1755 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Redhat Enterprise Linux for Ibm Z Systems. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1755/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1755/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-1755
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2025-1755
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2025-1755

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From sbomify Insights: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2025-1755/
Summaries are generated and may contain mistakes; the official description above is the record.