CVE-2025-40906

critical · 9.8

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.

9.8

CVSS

0.6%

EPSS (exploit prob.)

48th

EPSS percentile

2025-05-16

Published

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weaknesses

CWE-122CWE-190CWE-1104

References

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html
https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890

Query this programmatically:

curl https://evil-db.io/api/v1/cve/CVE-2025-40906