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CVE-2026-6691

HIGH CVSS: 7.8 Published: 2026-05-06 Modified: 2026-06-18

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 Platforms

Mongodb C Driver

Weakness Type

CWE-120, CWE-787

References