Authenticated service crash via binDataClean integer underflow
Published Apr 29, 2026 · Updated Apr 29, 2026
Integer underflow in affected MongoDB Server releases allows remote authenticated users to crash the service via malformed BSON input. The binDataClean() path processes deprecated-type BSON length metadata without rejecting an underflow before MD5 calculation. Low-privilege database access is required; successful exploitation crashes mongod and temporarily interrupts database availability.
Summary
What happened
Integer underflow in affected MongoDB Server releases allows remote authenticated users to crash the service via malformed BSON input. The binDataClean() path processes deprecated-type BSON length metadata without rejecting an underflow before MD5 calculation. Low-privilege database access is required; successful exploitation crashes mongod and temporarily interrupts database availability.
The record
- CVE
- CVE-2026-6914
- Published
- Apr 29, 2026
- Updated
- Apr 29, 2026
- Vendor
- MongoDB
- Product
- MongoDB Server
- Classifications
- CWE-191, T1499.004
- Attack vector
- network
- Privileges
- authenticated
Timeline
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- Apr 29, 2026CVE publishedPublication date reported by the CVE source.
- Apr 29, 2026Record updatedLatest update available in the CVE record.
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- Affected versionversion=7.0.0 <7.0.32
- Affected versionversion=8.0.0 <8.0.21
- Affected versionversion=8.1.0 <=8.1.*
- Affected versionversion=8.2.0 <8.2.7
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