Description
An uncontrolled recursion weakness in the BSON decoding logic of the MongoDB PHP driver may allow an unauthenticated party who can supply crafted binary document data to the decoder to exhaust the process stack. This may cause the PHP process using the driver to terminate unexpectedly, resulting in a loss of availability for that process. The condition occurs below the PHP layer and cannot be intercepted by application-level error handling.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected | Fixed |
|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | PHP Driver | 1.0.0 – < 1.21.12, 2.1.0 – < 2.1.12, 2.5.0 – < 2.5.5 | 1.21.12 |
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 14 | php-mongodb | 2.5.5-1 | — |
| Debian 13 | php-mongodb | 2.0.0-1+deb13u2 | — |
| Debian 12 | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
Ubuntu
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 26.10 | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 24.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 22.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 20.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
Show 2 more (older releases, extended support, other products)Fewer releases
| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ubuntu 18.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
| Ubuntu 16.04 LTS | php-mongodb | No fix yet | — |
Advisories 1
- WID-SEC-2026-4045 MongoDB: Schwachstelle ermöglicht Denial of Service BSI CERT-Bund (WID) · Oct 27, 2026