CVE-2018-16790

HIGH

libbson 1.12.0 - Heap-Based Buffer Over-Read in _bson_iter_next_internal

Title source: llm

Description

_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.

References (4)

Core 4

Core References

Patch x_refsource_confirm

https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/0d9a4d98bfdf4acd2c0138d4aaeb4e2e0934bd84

View Patch ZIP pw:eip

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_confirm

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627923#c3

Issue Tracking, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc

https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-2819

Mailing List

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html

Scores

CVSS v3 8.1

EPSS 0.0214

EPSS Percentile 79.8%

Attack Vector NETWORK

CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE

CWE-125

Status published

Products (1)

mongodb/libbson 1.12.0

Published Sep 10, 2018

Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026