Security Advisory

CVE-2026-6691

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2026-05-06 15:08:23
Last updated 2026-05-07 03:55:47
Assigner mongodb
CVSS score 8.6
State PUBLISHED

Description

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.