CVE-2026-106437: Out-of-bounds read and write via undersized BSON buffer reservation in MongoDB C Driver
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.
Vector CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:L/A:H · CWE-191
Tracked companies
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Status incidents that name it
No tracked status incident names this CVE.
Affected vendors and products
MongoDB: C Driver
References
- CVE record on cve.org (opens in new tab)
- NVD entry (opens in new tab)
- jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-6423 (opens in new tab)
- CVE records from the CVE Program (cve.org). CVE® is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation. (opens in new tab)
- This product uses data from the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. (opens in new tab)
- Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog from CISA. (opens in new tab)
- EPSS scores from FIRST (Exploit Prediction Scoring System). (opens in new tab)