CVE-2026-2303
February 10, 2026
The mongo-go-driver repository contains CGo bindings for GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication on Linux and macOS. The C wrapper implementation contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to incorrect assumptions about string termination in the GSSAPI standard. Since GSSAPI buffers are not guaranteed to be null-terminated or have extra padding, this results in reading one byte past the allocated heap buffer.
Affected Packages
https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-driver.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v1.17.0 <v1.17.7Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v1.17.7https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-driver.git (GITHUB):
Affected version(s) >=v2.4.0 <v2.4.2Fix Suggestion:
Update to version v2.4.2Related Resources (1)
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Contact UsCVSS v4
Base Score:
6.9
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Attack Requirements
NONE
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
PASSIVE
Vulnerable System Confidentiality
NONE
Vulnerable System Integrity
HIGH
Vulnerable System Availability
NONE
Subsequent System Confidentiality
NONE
Subsequent System Integrity
NONE
Subsequent System Availability
NONE
CVSS v3
Base Score:
6.5
Attack Vector
NETWORK
Attack Complexity
LOW
Privileges Required
LOW
User Interaction
NONE
Scope
UNCHANGED
Confidentiality
NONE
Integrity
HIGH
Availability
NONE
Weakness Type (CWE)
Permissive List of Allowed Inputs
EPSS
Base Score:
0.04