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CVE PROGRAM SOURCE RECORD8.6 High

CVE-2026-6691

MongoDB C Driver Cyrus SASL Canonicalization Buffer Overflow

Description

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.

Affected products

Version statuses are supplied by the assigning organization. Consult the original record for detailed ranges and platform conditions.

MongoDB Inc. MongoDB C Driver

Default version status: unaffected

  • 2.1.0 to ≤ 2.1.2affected

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