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Description

PyMongo's connection string parsing decodes percent-encoded characters in the host portion before the host list is separated on its delimiters. When an application places a hostname value supplied by an unauthenticated party into a connection string, that party may cause additional servers of their choosing to be added to the application's database client. The application may then send its authentication exchange and database operations to one of those servers, which can observe limited information and return altered results.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
MongoDB Python Driver < 4.18.2 4.18.2

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.

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Debian 14 pymongo 4.18.2-1 —
Debian 13 pymongo No fix yet —
Debian 12 pymongo No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 26.10 pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 22.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu 20.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Show 3 more (older releases, extended support, other products)
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 18.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
Ubuntu Pro 16.04 LTS pymongo No fix yet —
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
SLES 15 SP7 python-pymongo 3.11.0-150300.3.6.1 SUSE-SU-2026:4398-1
ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
openSUSE Tumbleweed python-pymongo 4.18.2-1.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:11935-1
openSUSE Leap 16.0 python-pymongo 4.6.3-bp160.2.1 openSUSE-SU-2026:22003-1

Azure Linux

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Azure Linux 3 python-pymongo No fix yet —

Wolfi

ReleasePackageFixed inAdvisory
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.77-core-integrations +3 No fix yet —
Wolfi rolling datadog-agent-7.81-core-integrations 7.81.3-r10 —

Affected packages

EcosystemPackageAffectedFixedRecord
PyPI pymongo >= 3.5.0, < 4.18.2 4.18.2 GHSA-vp6j-j7w5-5xjj

Advisories 4

References