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How to upgrade a MongoDB on Microsoft Windows

How To


Summary

In IBM® Design Room ONE® (DR ONE), how can you upgrade an existing installation of MongoDB to a version that is not affected by the CVE-2025-14847 vulnerability?

Objective

DR ONE is shipped with installation scripts that download and install MongoDB versions affected by the CVE-2025-14847 vulnerability.  You would like to upgrade to a MongoDB version that is not affected by the CVE-2025-14847 vulnerability.

The following MongoDB versions are affected:

  • MongoDB 8.2.0 through 8.2.3
  • MongoDB 8.0.0 through 8.0.16
  • MongoDB 7.0.0 through 7.0.26
  • MongoDB 6.0.0 through 6.0.26
  • MongoDB 5.0.0 through 5.0.31
  • MongoDB 4.4.0 through 4.4.29
  • All MongoDB Server v4.2 versions
  • All MongoDB Server v4.0 versions
  • All MongoDB Server v3.6 versions

The following MongoDB versions (or later) are not affected:

  • MongoDB 8.2.3
  • MongoDB 8.0.17
  • MongoDB 7.0.28
  • MongoDB 6.0.27
  • MongoDB 5.0.32
  • MongoDB 4.4.30

Environment

This information is only applicable to installations on Microsoft® Windows®. For installation on Linux, MongoDB is downloaded and installed manually.

Steps

1.Stop DR ONE - Installation_instructions > Using PM2 for Managing the Web Server

2.Stop the MongoDB Windows service

3.Back-up MongoDB's data, and optionally, logs folders, in order to be able to restore them if anything goes wrong

4.Navigate to the file [DR_server_install_dir]\DR_Install\dr-config.json and open it in a text editor

5.Find the property mongo_win_download_url

//URL from where to download Mongo
"mongo_win_download_url": "https://fastdl.mongodb.org/windows/mongodb-
windows-x86_64-6.0.10-signed.msi",

6.Modify the URL to 6.0.27 (or later):

//URL from where to download Mongo
"mongo_win_download_url": "https://fastdl.mongodb.org/windows/mongodb-
windows-x86_64-6.0.27-signed.msi",

7.Navigate to the DR_install directory in a Command Prompt and execute the commands:

node preinstall-dr.js

(Answer yes to download)

8.Verify that the MongoDB .msi file was downloaded to ...\DR-Install\downloaded

node install-dr.js

9.Start the MongoDB Windows service

10.Confirm the MongoDB version by using the cd command to mongo-install_dir\bin and confirming the new version with the mongod --version command

11.Start DR ONE

node deploy-dr.js

Document Location

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Product Synonym

DR ONE

Document Information

Modified date:
25 February 2026

UID

ibm17261612

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