CVE-2026-2303 (GCVE-0-2026-2303)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2026-02-10 19:03 – Updated: 2026-02-11 15:16
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Title
Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in Go Driver GSSAPI C Wrappers enables application crash or information leak
Summary
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.
Severity
6.5 (Medium)
SSVC
Exploitation: none
Automatable: no
Technical Impact: partial
CISA Coordinator · CISA-ADP (v2.0.3)
Decision recorded 2026-02-11 15:16 UTC
CWE
- CWE-183 - Permissive List of Allowed Inputs
Assigner
References
1 reference
Impacted products
1 product
| Vendor | Product | Version | CPE status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB Inc | MongoDB Go Driver |
Affected:
1.0.0 , < 1.17.7
(semver)
Affected: 2.0.0 , < 2.4.2 (semver) |
guessed |
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