HIGHCVE-2026-6691Published Modified CNA mongodb
CVE-2026-6691: MongoDB C Driver Cyrus SASL Canonicalization Buffer Overflow
The MongoDB C Driver's Cyrus SASL integration performs unsafe string copying during username canonicalization, enabling a heap buffer overflow before any authentication or network traffic. This may be triggered by passing untrusted input in the username of a MongoDB URI with authMechanism=GSSAPI.
Metrics
- CVSS v4.0
- 8.6
- Severity
- HIGH
- Fixed in
- —
- Affected Products
- 1
Affected packages
- MongoDB Inc. / MongoDB C Driver≤ 2.1.2
CVSS Vector
CVSS:4.0/AV:L/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:H/VI:H/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:NReferences