CVE-2025-40906

Published May 16, 2025

Last updated a month ago

CVSS critical 9.8

Overview

Description
BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities. Those include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB's BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported.
Source
9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
NVD status
Awaiting Analysis

Risk scores

CVSS 3.1

Type
Secondary
Base score
9.8
Impact score
5.9
Exploitability score
3.9
Vector string
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Severity
CRITICAL

Weaknesses

9b29abf9-4ab0-4765-b253-1875cd9b441e
CWE-1104

Social media

Hype score
Not currently trending

References

Sources include official advisories and independent security research.