# CVE-2026-81530: KMS master key exposure via unredacted credential serialization in driver settings string

> CVE-2026-81530: KMS master key exposure via unredacted credential serialization in driver settings string. CVSS 5.6 (CVSS 3.1).

Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-81530
Last updated: 2026-09-29T19:16:13Z

- Published: 2026-08-27 18:32 UTC · Updated: 2026-09-29 19:16 UTC · Assigner: mongodb
- CVSS: 5.6 (CVSS 3.1) · Severity: Medium · Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:H/I:N/A:N
- EPSS: 0.10%, 1th percentile (scored 2026-10-25)
- CISA KEV: no
- CWE: CWE-532

## Description

A weakness in the client-side encryption configuration surface of the MongoDB C\# Driver causes sensitive key-management credential material supplied by the application to be reproduced verbatim in the driver's human-readable diagnostic representation of its client settings, instead of being masked as other secret fields are. A party able to read the application's logs, diagnostic output, or a process memory dump may thereby recover the plaintext credentials and use them to decrypt protected field data.

## Affected vendors and products

- MongoDB: C\# Driver

## Tracked companies

- [MongoDB Atlas](https://rewindex.com/company/mongodb-atlas.md)

## References

- [CVE record on cve.org](https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-81530)
- [NVD entry](https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2026-81530)
- [https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CSHARP-6164](https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CSHARP-6164)
- [https://www.nuget.org/packages/MongoDB.Driver/3.11.1](https://www.nuget.org/packages/MongoDB.Driver/3.11.1)

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Canonical: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-81530 · Markdown: https://rewindex.com/cve/CVE-2026-81530.md · JSON: https://rewindex.com/api/v1/cves/CVE-2026-81530 · Data licensed CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) · Generated 2026-10-26T02:15:51.094Z