CVE-2025-40906 (GCVE-0-2025-40906)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2025-05-16 15:15
Modified
2025-05-17 02:39
Severity ?
9.8 (Critical) - CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • CWE-1395 - Dependency on Vulnerable Third-Party Component
  • CWE-1104 - Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components
Summary
BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities. Those include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported.
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