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GHSA-5PWW-X83Q-7GJH

Vulnerability from github – Published: 2025-05-16 18:31 – Updated: 2025-05-17 03:30

Details

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

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

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-05-16 15:15 – Updated: 2025-09-09 13:54

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

Assigner

CPANSec

References

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Tags

	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…	mailing-list
	https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongod…	vendor-advisory

Impacted products

	Vendor	Product	Version
	MONGODB	BSON::XS	Affected: 0 , ≤ 0.8.4 (custom)

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Published Proof of Concept: A public proof of concept is available for this vulnerability.
Exploited: The vulnerability was observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Patched: The vulnerability was observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
Not exploited: The vulnerability was not observed as exploited by the user who reported the sighting.
Not confirmed: The user expressed doubt about the validity of the vulnerability.
Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.

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