CVE-2026-106437

mongo-c-driver: The BSON buffer-reservation API in the MongoDB C Driver can record a length smaller than the five-byte BSON minimum

CVE-2026-106437 is fixed in mongo-c-driver on 1 platform by DEBIAN-CVE-2026-106437 (version 2.5.6-1), released October 16, 2026. It is not reported as exploited. Patch Radar priority: High.

High
CVSS
7.4
high
Exploitation
None reported
No vendor assessment
CISA KEV
Not listed
Not in the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog
EPSS
0.0013
2nd percentile

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.

Where it's fixed

ProductFixed inFixReleased
Linux
mongo-c-driver · Debian 14 2.5.6-1 DEBIAN-CVE-2026-106437 Oct 16, 2026

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