THREAT OPS › Threat News › [NVD] CVE-2026-18696 (MEDIUM 6.5) — An issue in MongoDB Server's applyOps command could allow an authenticated user with specific non-default privileges to perform certain data-definition operations, such as dropping or modifying collections, against collections they do not have permission to manipulate. This is du
[NVD] CVE-2026-18696 (MEDIUM 6.5) — An issue in MongoDB Server's applyOps command could allow an authenticated user with specific non-default privileges to perform certain data-definition operations, such as dropping or modifying collections, against collections they do not have permission to manipulate. This is du
CVE-2026-18696 CVSS: 6.5 MEDIUM Published: 2026-08-11T19:17:23.853
An issue in MongoDB Server's applyOps command could allow an authenticated user with specific non-default privileges to perform certain data-definition operations, such as dropping or modifying collections, against collections they do not have permission to manipulate. This is due to an inconsistency in how the target collection i
Indicators of compromise
- CVE-2026-18696cve
Original source: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-18696