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Fedora 44 : mongo-c-driver (2026-43d95b04a7)

high Nessus Plugin ID 379957

Synopsis

The remote Fedora host is missing one or more security updates.

Description

The remote Fedora 44 host has a package installed that is affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the FEDORA-2026-43d95b04a7 advisory.

 ## libmongoc 1.30.15

 Fixes

 - Fix abort when parsing a cursor namespace without a dot separator.
 - Fix possible abort in mongoc_gridfs_bucket_download_to_stream on invalid file metadata.
 **CVE-2026-120955**
 - Fix handling of embedded NUL bytes in namespaces. **CVE-2026-120956**
 - Fix a missing bounds check when reading GridFS files. **CVE-2026-120684**
 - Fix a memory leak when an OP_COMPRESSED reply fails to parse. **CVE-2026-120678**
 - Report writeConcernError consistently, as mandated by the CRUD spec.




Tenable has extracted the preceding description block directly from the Fedora security advisory.

Note that Nessus has not tested for these issues but has instead relied only on the application's self-reported version number.

Solution

Update the affected mongo-c-driver package.

See Also

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2026-43d95b04a7

Plugin Details

Severity: High

ID: 379957

File Name: fedora_2026-43d95b04a7.nasl

Version: 1.1

Type: Local

Agent: unix

Published: 11/13/2026

Updated: 11/13/2026

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Continuous Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Tenable Cloud Security, Tenable Self-Hosted Container Security, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Low

Score: 3.5

Percentile: 51.42

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.5

Temporal Score: 6.3

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:C

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-120956

CVSS v3

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 7.1

Temporal Score: 6.2

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:L/I:N/A:H

Temporal Vector: CVSS:3.0/E:U/RL:O/RC:C

CVSS v4

Risk Factor: High

Base Score: 8.7

Threat Score: 6.6

Threat Vector: CVSS:4.0/E:U

Vector: CVSS:4.0/AV:N/AC:L/AT:N/PR:N/UI:N/VC:N/VI:N/VA:H/SC:N/SI:N/SA:N

CVSS Score Source: CVE-2026-120955

Vulnerability Information

CPE: cpe:/o:fedoraproject:fedora:44, p-cpe:/a:fedoraproject:fedora:mongo-c-driver

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/RedHat/release, Host/RedHat/rpm-list

Exploit Ease: No known exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 11/4/2026

Vulnerability Publication Date: 11/3/2026

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2026-120678, CVE-2026-120684, CVE-2026-120955, CVE-2026-120956