CVE-2026-82056: mongodb Use After Free

Vulnerability summary

CVE-2026-82056 is a medium (CVSS 6.0) Use After Free vulnerability in mongodb. EPSS estimates a 0.33% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 25.1% of scored vulnerabilities.

Timeline

1. 08-09-2026
   PublishedVulnerability first disclosed.
2. 08-09-2026
   Last modifiedVulnerability information updated.

Description

A race condition in MongoDB server's text index query parsing can cause a heap use-after-free read when handling upsert retry paths. Under certain concurrent index lifecycle operations, a raw pointer to internal text index metadata may be dereferenced after the underlying structures have been freed, leading to a server crash. An authenticated user with readWrite privileges can trigger this condition through specific concurrent text-search and index management operations, resulting in denial of service for all connected clients. This

• CWE-416Use After FreeThe product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.