CVE-2025-14911

Integer Overflow in GridFS chunkSize Leading to Heap Allocation Failure

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Jan 27, 2026
Updated
Feb 26, 2026
Reserved
Dec 18, 2025

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Description

User-controlled chunkSize metadata from MongoDB lacks appropriate validation allowing malformed GridFS metadata to overflow the bounding container.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
4.07.1 HighCVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:L/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:Nmongodb
3.16.5 MediumCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:Hmongodb

Weaknesses

  • CWE-120 Buffer Copy without Checking Size of Input ('Classic Buffer Overflow')

Affected Products

ProductVersions
Mongo-c-driverMongoDB
  • before 2.1.3Affected

References

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