Heap out-of-bounds write via signed size overflow in BSON document encoding
An integer overflow in the BSON document encoding component of the MongoDB Python Driver's bundled native extension may occur when a single document is built from an unusually large amount of caller-supplied data. Size arithmetic is performed in a signed 32-bit type, and the guard meant to catch the overflow is written in a form whose behavior is not defined by the C language standard. A party with no privileges who can place a very large value into data that an application encodes may, depending on how the native extension was built, cause a write outside the bounds of an allocated buffer inside the application's own process.
CVE-2026-96749
Primary source · Revision 1
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Security context
Source reference: cve:CVE-2026-96749
Python Driver
Source reference: /containers/cna/affected/0/product
- Affected versions
- Not stated in this record
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Structured affected-version data
Original package identities and version rules from this source.
[
{
"vendor": "MongoDB",
"product": "Python Driver",
"versions": [
{
"status": "affected",
"version": "1.9.0",
"lessThan": "4.18.2",
"versionType": "semver"
}
],
"defaultStatus": "unaffected"
}
]- Related CVEs
- CVE-2026-96749
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Publisher severity
high
Source reference: /containers/cna/metrics
- Event
- #2354 · Revision 1
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