CVE-2026-6231 — bson_validate may skip validation when processing certain inputs
The bson_validate function may return early on specific inputs and incorrectly report success. This behavior could result in skipping validation for BSON data, allowing malforme…
Published: 2026-04-13 · CVSS: 5.3 · CVSS 4.0
The bson_validate function may return early on specific inputs and incorrectly report success. This behavior could result in skipping validation for BSON data, allowing malformed or invalid UTF-8 sequences to bypass validation and be processed incorrectly. The issue may affect applications that rely on these functions to validate untrusted BSON data before further processing. This issue affects MongoDB C Driver versions prior to 1.30.5, MongoDB C Driver version 2.0.0 and MongoDB C Driver version 2.0.1
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7