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Out-of-bounds read in bson module of PyMongo

Type: advisorySources: OSV

An out-of-bounds read in the 'bson' module of PyMongo 4.6.2 or earlier allows deserialization of malformed BSON provided by a Server to raise an exception which may contain arbitrary application memory.

Products
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Affected versions
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Fixed versions
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CVEs
CVE-2024-5629
Confirmed fixed CVEs
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Updated in this feed
3 Nov 2026, 10:22 UTC · Revision 1

Source evidence

Out-of-bounds read in bson module of PyMongo

core-osv · Original source

Published 5 Jun 2024, 14:32 UTC

An out-of-bounds read in the 'bson' module of PyMongo 4.6.2 or earlier allows deserialization of malformed BSON provided by a Server to raise an exception which may contain arbitrary application memory.

osv:CVE-2024-5629
Complete source record
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