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Fencer Vulns
low 2.0

CVE-2026-4359 json

Heap-buffer-over-read in _mongoc_http_send via strstr on non-null-terminated buffer

published 2026-03-17 7 mo ago modified 2026-07-18 3 mo ago also EUVD-2026-12640 , JLSEC-2026-182

cvss
2.0
version 3.1, CNA
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
0.2%
EPSS 0.2% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 9%
public exploits
0
none known

Summary

A compromised third party cloud server or man-in-the-middle attacker could send a malformed HTTP response and cause a crash in applications using the MongoDB C driver.

Patch / fix

  • julia MongoC_jll 1.30.8+0
  • MongoDB Inc MongoDB C Driver 2.2.3
  • mongo-c-driver Debian 12 1.23.1-1+deb12u3
  • mongo-c-driver Debian 13 1.30.4-1+deb13u2
  • mongo-c-driver Debian 14 2.2.3-1

debian advisories DEBIAN-CVE-2026-4359

  • mongo-c-driver Alpine 3.24 1.30.14-r0

alpine advisories ALPINE-CVE-2026-4359

Alpine secdb © Alpine Linux, from https://secdb.alpinelinux.org via OSV; changed: normalised to fixed package versions per release. CC BY-SA 4.0

Vendor advisories

What the vendors themselves say about their products: affected, fixed or not affected, and what to do.

red hat product security vex CVE-2026-4359 updated cvss 5.9

mongo-c-driver: mongo-c-driver: Denial of Service via malformed HTTP response

  • Red Hat All currently supported Red Hat products
    not affected: vulnerable code not present

Red Hat CSAF VEX © Red Hat, Inc., from https://security.access.redhat.com/data/csaf/v2/vex/; changed: reduced to product statuses and remediations. CC BY 4.0 · csaf

CISA SSVC

Exploitation
none
Automatable
no
Technical impact
partial
Assessed
7 mo ago

Exploit prediction

0.20% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 9% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
CNA 4.0 2.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
CNA 3.1 2.0 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:H/UI:R/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
CNA 4.0 2.0 CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:H/AT:P/PR:H/UI:P/VC:N/VI:N/VA:L/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N/E:X/CR:X/IR:X/AR:X/MAV:X/MAC:X/MAT:X/MPR:X/MUI:X/MVC:X/MVI:X/MVA:X/MSC:X/MSI:X/MSA:X/S:X/AU:X/R:X/V:X/RE:X/U:X
NVD 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
OSV 3.1 3.7 CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:H/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L

Affected packages

ecosystem package affected fixed in
julia MongoC_jll
<1.30.8+0
1.30.8+0

Affected products

  • MongoDB Inc MongoDB C Driver

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-158 Improper Neutralization of Null Byte or NUL Character

References

Sources

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