CVE-2026-120678: high-severity vulnerability in MongoDB C Driver
MongoDB C Driver leaks the decompressed reply buffer when an OP_COMPRESSED reply fails to parse (denial of service)
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21Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. No public exploitation artifact known so far.
ssvc Trackcvss 8.7epss 0.4%
A memory management flaw in the MongoDB C Driver's handling of compressed responses may cause the client library to hold on to memory that is never released. An unauthenticated party that controls the database endpoint a client application connects to may cause repeated, unbounded memory growth in that application, which may result in the application becoming unavailable. No credentials, transport security settings, or user interaction are required.
CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N
Affected products
MongoDB · C DriverRelated CVEs — MongoDB C Driver
In the same product, most dangerous first.
CVE-2026-96746HIGHHeap buffer overflow via mid-scan command list growth in client topology monitoringEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-120955HIGHMongoDB C Driver Modern GridFS mongoc_gridfs_bucket_download_to_stream() Aborts Application on Malformed GridFS MetadataEPSS 0.4%CVE-2026-120684MEDIUMMongoDB C Driver GridFS gap lets a shared writer recover a protected client's passwordEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-84963MEDIUMSilent field truncation via unchecked int cast of huge JSON string values in JSON-to-BSON parserEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-84969MEDIUMHeap overflow via truncated base64 encoding of binary fields in length-limited JSON outputEPSS 0.3%CVE-2026-81524MEDIUMCross-tenant database retargeting via dot/NUL injection in namespace strings in the C DriverEPSS 0.3%