ubuntu-cve-2025-40906
Vulnerability from osv_ubuntu
Published
2025-05-16 16:15
Modified
2026-01-20 05:33
Summary
Details

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.

Severity
9.8 (Critical)
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
N/A (UNKNOWN)
medium
References
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  "affected": [
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
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          }
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        "name": "libbson-xs-perl",
        "purl": "pkg:deb/ubuntu/libbson-xs-perl@0.8.2-1?arch=source\u0026distro=focal"
      },
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            }
          ],
          "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
        }
      ],
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      },
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            }
          ],
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        }
      ],
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      ]
    },
    {
      "ecosystem_specific": {
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          {
            "binary_name": "libbson-xs-perl",
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        ]
      },
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "Ubuntu:24.04:LTS",
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      },
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  ],
  "aliases": [],
  "details": "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\u0027s BSON serialization, but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13, 2020 and is no longer supported.",
  "id": "UBUNTU-CVE-2025-40906",
  "modified": "2026-01-20T05:33:06Z",
  "published": "2025-05-16T16:15:00Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2025-40906"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2025-40906"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.security.metacpan.org/cve-announce/msg/29655123/"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "REPORT",
      "url": "https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890"
    }
  ],
  "related": [],
  "schema_version": "1.7.0",
  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    },
    {
      "score": "medium",
      "type": "Ubuntu"
    }
  ],
  "upstream": [
    "CVE-2025-40906"
  ]
}



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