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UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40906 (CVE-2025-40906)

Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu – Published: 2025-05-16 16:15 – Updated: 2026-01-20 05:33 – Source website

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

N/A (UNKNOWN)


                    
                      medium

References

URL

Type

	https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40906	REPORT
	https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40906	REPORT
	https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/…	REPORT
	https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025…	REPORT
	https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongod…	REPORT

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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

Title

BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities

Summary

Severity

9.8 (Critical)


                        
                          CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

SSVC

Exploitation: none Automatable: yes Technical Impact: total

CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)

Decision recorded 2025-05-17 02:38 UTC

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 CNA under the redhat root

CNA scorecard C 64/100 over 265 records in the last 180 days details

References

2 references

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

Impacted products

1 product

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

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