CVE-2026-106437

Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.

Description

The BSON buffer-reservation API in the MongoDB C Driver can record a length smaller than the five-byte BSON minimum. Later append or comparison operations can underflow unsigned length calculations and read or write outside the document buffer. An actor who can influence the length supplied by an embedding application can cause the application to terminate or read or corrupt adjacent process memory. Reaching this issue requires the application to pass an undersized value to bson_reserve_buffer and then perform an affected operation.

Severity

MEDIUM

CVSS score

5.9 (v4.0)

Vulnerability status

Analyzed

Source identifier

[email protected]

Published

2026-10-08 19:16:59.550000

Last modified

2026-10-27 19:56:50.867000

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