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CVE-2026-6691

The MongoDB C Driver's Cyrus SASL integration performs unsafe string copying during username canonicalization, enabling a heap buffer overflow before any authe…

Impact

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

VendorProductAffected versions
MongodbC Driver
from 2.1.0 before 2.1.2

Weakness classification

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