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High · 7.5 CVE-2026-81520 EUVD-2026-67939GHSA-435g-jwv8-462q

MongoDB Connector for BI Unbounded Authentication Negotiation Leading to Connection Exhaustion

Published Aug 28, 2026 · Updated Aug 31, 2026 · Assigned by mongodb

Description

A network-reachable client that has not yet authenticated can hold a MongoDB Connector for BI authentication session open indefinitely by beginning a SASL-based login exchange and then declining to complete it. Because the negotiation loop had no overall time bound and the read from the client had no deadline, each such session retains a worker, a client connection slot, and its associated backend database connections until the process is restarted. Repeated use of this behavior can consume the configured connection capacity and prevent legitimate users from establishing new sessions.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MongoDB BI Connector < 2.14.31 2.14.31

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