CVE-2026-81520 — MongoDB Connector for BI Unbounded Authentication Negotiation Leading to Connection Exhaustion
A network-reachable client that has not yet authenticated can hold a MongoDB Connector for BI authentication session open indefinitely by beginning a SASL-based login exchange a…
Published: 2026-08-28 · CVSS: 8.7 · CVSS 4.0
A network-reachable client that has not yet authenticated can hold a MongoDB Connector for BI authentication session open indefinitely by beginning a SASL-based login exchange and then declining to complete it. Because the negotiation loop had no overall time bound and the read from the client had no deadline, each such session retains a worker, a client connection slot, and its associated backend database connections until the process is restarted. Repeated use of this behavior can consume the configured connection capacity and prevent legitimate users from establishing new sessions.
Source: CVE Program · Revision 8b16575c39f1e1810c5e863010da073d2d3285e7