CVE-2026-106435

The MongoDB Python Driver's binary accelerator can read outside a buffer when an application decodes malformed BSON containing a truncated regular-expression element without a trailing NUL byte. An actor who can supply BSON to the documented decode or decode_all API can cause the application process to terminate when the C extension is loaded. The driver's normal database wire-protocol path does not reach this code.

The MongoDB Python Driver's binary accelerator can read outside a buffer when an application decodes malformed BSON containing a truncated regular-expression element without a trailing NUL byte. An actor who can supply BSON to the documented decode or decode_all API can cause the application process to terminate when the C extension is loaded. The driver's normal database wire-protocol path does not reach this code.

Duplicate Advisory

This advisory has been withdrawn because it is a duplicate of GHSA-98qm-wvgf-w4cf. This link is maintained to preserve external references.

Original Description

The MongoDB Python Driver's binary accelerator can read outside a buffer when an application decodes malformed BSON containing a truncated regular-expression element without a trailing NUL byte. An actor who can supply BSON to the documented decode or decode_all API can cause the application process to terminate when the C extension is loaded. The driver's normal database wire-protocol path does not reach this code.

Impact

The C extension's BSON decoder scans a Regex element's pattern and flags strings with strlen before checking the document's remaining length, so a crafted truncated Regex element can read past the end of the caller's buffer. bson.decode and bson.decode_all accept mmap and array buffers, which carry no NUL sentinel; the read can cross into unmapped memory and kill the process with an uncatchable SIGSEGV. Any application decoding untrusted BSON from such buffers is affected — impact is availability only, since the out-of-bounds bytes are never returned as content. NUL-terminated buffers (bytes, bytearray) raise InvalidBSON at worst; the driver's own transport and pure-Python installs are not affected. All releases through 4.18.2 are affected when the C extension is loaded.

Patches

Fixed in PyMongo 4.18.3. Malformed Regex elements now raise InvalidBSON on every accepted buffer type; valid documents decode unchanged.

Workarounds

Decode untrusted BSON only from NUL-terminated buffers — bytes or bytearray — and copy mmap input first, e.g. bytes(mm[:size]).

The MongoDB Python Driver's binary accelerator can read outside a buffer when an application decodes malformed BSON containing a truncated regular-expression element without a trailing NUL byte. An actor who can supply BSON to the documented decode or decode_all API can cause the application process to terminate when the C extension is loaded. The driver's normal database wire-protocol path does not reach this code.

The MongoDB Python Driver's binary accelerator can read outside a buffer when an application decodes malformed BSON containing a truncated regular-expression element without a trailing NUL byte. An actor who can supply BSON to the documented decode or decode_all API can cause the application process to terminate when the C extension is loaded. The driver's normal database wire-protocol path does not reach this code.