vulnerability
MongoDB: CVE-2025-0755: Heap-based Buffer Overflow
| Severity | CVSS | Published | Added | Modified |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C) | Mar 18, 2025 | Apr 27, 2026 | May 7, 2026 |
Severity
7
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)
Published
Mar 18, 2025
Added
Apr 27, 2026
Modified
May 7, 2026
Description
The various bson_append functions in the MongoDB C driver library may be susceptible to buffer overflow when performing operations that could result in a final BSON document which exceeds the maximum allowable size (INT32_MAX), resulting in a segmentation fault and possible application crash. This issue affected libbson versions prior to 1.27.5, MongoDB Server v8.0 versions prior to 8.0.1 and MongoDB Server v7.0 versions prior to 7.0.16
Solutions
mongodb-upgrade-latestmongodb-upgrade-7_0_16
References
- CVE-2025-0755
- https://attackerkb.com/topics/CVE-2025-0755
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-5601
- https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-94461
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html
- https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00027.html
- https://euvd.enisa.europa.eu/vulnerability/EUVD-2025-6467
- CWE-122
- EUVD-EUVD-2025-6467
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