CVE•Published 2026-08-11•Modified 2026-08-28•1 article on news•4 live references•NVD data
CVE-2026-18712
Vulnerability data via NVD (ingested)
CVSS v3.1
8.1
HIGH
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:H/A:H
EPSS percentile
7
Exploit Prediction Scoring System · top 93% of all CVEs
Weaknesses (CWE)
Description
An issue in MongoDB Server's Queryable Encryption maintenance operations could allow an authenticated user with privileges on one encrypted collection to cause unauthorized modification or destruction of data belonging to a different collection. This is due to insufficient validation of certain internal metadata references before they are used to perform operations on other namespaces.
Timeline
Published 2026-08-11
Modified 2026-08-28
External references
Search for exposed instances
Shodan + Censys queries derived from NVD's CPE data. The vuln tag catches assets Shodan has explicitly linked to this CVE; the product / banner fingerprints find exposed instances even when the vuln tag was never applied (which is common).
More intel sources (5)
Shodan report
vuln:CVE-2026-18712Country / ASN / product breakdown for the vuln query.
Censys
vulnerabilities.cve_id: CVE-2026-18712Censys host search filtered to this CVE id.
grep.app
CVE-2026-18712Public source-code mentions — fast PoC discovery.
GitHub code
CVE-2026-18712GitHub code search for direct mentions.
Google dork
"CVE-2026-18712" exploit -site:nvd.nist.govWrite-ups and news, NVD excluded.