| Name | CVE-2024-21506 |
| Description | Versions of the package pymongo before 4.6.3 are vulnerable to Out-of-bounds Read in the bson module. Using the crafted payload the attacker could force the parser to deserialize unmanaged memory. The parser tries to interpret bytes next to buffer and throws an exception with string. If the following bytes are not printable UTF-8 the parser throws an exception with a single byte. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| Debian Bugs | 1069581 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
| Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
|---|
| pymongo (PTS) | jessie | 2.7.2-1 | vulnerable |
| stretch | 3.4.0-1 | vulnerable |
| buster | 3.7.1-1.1 | vulnerable |
| sid, bullseye, trixie, bookworm | 3.11.0-1 | vulnerable |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
| Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
|---|
| pymongo | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | 1069581 |
Notes
[bookworm] - pymongo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
[bullseye] - pymongo <no-dsa> (Minor issue)
https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-PYMONGO-6370597
https://gist.github.com/keltecc/62a7c2bf74a997d0a7b48a0ff3853a03