Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input Affecting mongo-c-driver package, versions [0,]


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.07% (23rd percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-CONAN-MONGOCDRIVER-16799826
  • published22 May 2026
  • disclosed20 May 2026
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 20 May 2026

NewCVE-2026-9100  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-1285  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

A fix was pushed into the master branch but not yet published.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Improper Validation of Specified Index, Position, or Offset in Input via the legacy GridFS file reader API. An attacker can cause a crash or leak process memory contents by supplying crafted documents with malformed file metadata to the database, which are then read by applications using the legacy API.

CVSS Base Scores

version 4.0
version 3.1