Vulnerability Report

CVE-2018-16790

Title: Mongodb Libbson Memory Corruption

Memory Corruption

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2018-16790.

CWE Category CWE-125

Published Date Sep 10, 2018

Modified Date Nov 03, 2025

Exploit Status Not Found

Score 8.1 CVSS v3.0

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.66%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2018-16790: _bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.

Impacted Vendors

mongodb 1

Reference Links

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627923#c3 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/0d9a4d98bfdf4acd2c0138d4aaeb4e2e0934bd84 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-2819 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1627923#c3 https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-c-driver/commit/0d9a4d98bfdf4acd2c0138d4aaeb4e2e0934bd84 https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/CDRIVER-2819 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html

CVSS v3.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

8.1

Attack Vector

NETWORK

Complexity

LOW

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

REQUIRED

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

5.8

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2018-16790 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

November 03, 2025 MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

September 10, 2018 PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector NETWORK

Complexity LOW

Privileges N/A

Interaction REQUIRED

CVSS Vector String


                                    CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.