CVE-2025-40906 (GCVE-0-2025-40906)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-16 15:15 – Updated: 2025-09-09 13:54
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Title
BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities
Summary
BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities. Those include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported.
Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1395 - Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component
  • CWE-1104 - Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
  • CWE-122 - Heap-based Buffer Overflow
  • CWE-190 - Integer Overflow or Wraparound
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Vendor Product Version
MONGODB BSON::XS Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.8.4 (custom)
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