CVE-2026-6231
Full vulnerability record from the local CVENow database.
Description
The bson_validate function may return early on specific inputs and incorrectly report success. This behavior could result in skipping validation for BSON data, allowing malformed or invalid UTF-8 sequences to bypass validation and be processed incorrectly. The issue may affect applications that rely on these functions to validate untrusted BSON data before further processing. This issue affects MongoDB C Driver versions prior to 1.30.5, MongoDB C Driver version 2.0.0 and MongoDB C Driver version 2.0.1
Severity
MEDIUM
CVSS score
5.3
(v4.0)
Vulnerability status
Analyzed
Source identifier
Published
2026-04-13 16:16:36.570000
Last modified
2026-10-26 22:10:00.163000
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