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CVE-2025-40906
critical
Description
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.
References
https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html