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CVE-2026-9740

Unbounded recursion in BSONColumn interleaved-reference causes pre-auth stack overflow

CVSS 8.7 HIGHEPSS 0.3%CWE-674
A vulnerability in MongoDB Server's BSON validation logic allows an unauthenticated user to crash the mongod process by sending a specially crafted message. The BSON validator's handling of certain nested binary data structures permits uncontrolled mutual recursion between validation functions, where each re-entry resets internal depth tracking.
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 · MongoDB Server

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