CVE-2025-12657 (GCVE-0-2025-12657)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2025-11-03 21:03 – Updated: 2025-11-03 21:26
VLAI
Title
Malformed KMIP response may result in access violation
Summary
The KMIP response parser built into mongo binaries is overly tolerant of certain malformed packets, and may parse them into invalid objects. Later reads of this object can result in read access violations.
Severity
5.9 (Medium)
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:N/VC:L/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
5 (Medium)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:N/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H
SSVC
Exploitation: none Automatable: no Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2025-11-03 21:26 UTC
CWE
  • CWE-754 - Improper Check for Unusual or Exceptional Conditions
Assigner
mongodb CNA under the mitre root
CNA scorecard C 70/100 over 222 records in the last 180 days details
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version CPE status
MongoDB Inc. MongoDB Server Affected: 6.0 , < 7.0.22 (custom)
Affected: 8.0 , < 8.0.10 (custom)
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