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.
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"unresolved_ranges": [
{
"source": "AFFECTED_FIELD",
"extracted_events": [
{
"introduced": "8.2.0"
},
{
"fixed": "8.2.7"
}
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}
],
"cwe_ids": [
"CWE-476"
],
"cna_assigner": "mongodb",
"osv_generated_from": "https://github.com/CVEProject/cvelistV5/tree/main/cves/2026/8xxx/CVE-2026-8063.json"
}