Heap overflow via oversized decrypted TLS record sequence in Windows Secure Channel stream
Key facts
- Attack vector
- Network
- Privileges required
- None
- User interaction
- None
- Attack complexity
- High
- Attack requirements
- Present
- Impact type
- Code execution
- Confidentiality · integrity · availability
- High · High · High
- Fix status
- No fix listed
Attack profile from CVSS 4.0 · CNA. Fix status from CNA. Impact type from CWE-787 and the CVSS impact.
Summary
A heap-based buffer overflow exists in the TLS transport layer of the MongoDB C Driver when built with the Windows platform TLS backend. A remote endpoint that the client connects to can cause the driver to write uncontrolled data outside the bounds of a heap allocation while processing incoming encrypted traffic after the TLS handshake completes. No authentication or user interaction is required, because the affected processing occurs before any application-level authentication completes. Triggering this issue may lead to memory corruption in the client process, disclosure of adjacent heap memory, or termination of the process.
Why it matters now
SSVC decision points
CISA ADP · SSVC 2.0.3
- Exploitation
- None
- Automatable
- No
- Technical impact
- Total
The decision (Track, Attend, Act) also depends on your mission and well-being impact; see CISA's SSVC guide.
Affected products
| Vendor | Product | Affected versions | Fixed in | Status | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| MongoDB | C Driver | 2.4.0; 2.3.0 – 2.3.3; 2.2.0 – 2.2.4; 2.1.0 – 2.1.2; 2.0.0 – 2.0.2; 1.30.0 – 1.30.8; 1.29.0 – 1.29.2; 1.28.0 – 1.28.1; 1.27.0 – 1.27.6; 1.26.0 – 1.26.2; 1.25.0 – 1.25.4; 1.24.0 – 1.24.4 | — | No fix listed | CNA |
- C Driver VendorMongoDB Affected 2.4.0; 2.3.0 – 2.3.3; 2.2.0 – 2.2.4; 2.1.0 – 2.1.2; 2.0.0 – 2.0.2; 1.30.0 – 1.30.8; 1.29.0 – 1.29.2; 1.28.0 – 1.28.1; 1.27.0 – 1.27.6; 1.26.0 – 1.26.2; 1.25.0 – 1.25.4; 1.24.0 – 1.24.4 Fixed in — No fix listed CNA
Remediation
No fixed version listed by the sources yet.
Vendor assessments
Timeline
- 2026-10-02 Threatist record created from CVE-2026-93393
- 2026-10-03 Alias added: GHSA-x65h-hw7w-mq6w
References
More MongoDB C Driver vulnerabilities
- TI-2026-05870 MongoDB C Driver Cyrus SASL Canonicalization Buffer Overflow CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.6
- TI-2026-62968 Integer Underflow → Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in `bson_new_from_buffer() CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.9
- TI-2024-07001 Accessing Untrusted Directory May Allow Local Privilege Escalation CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.8
- TI-2026-58387 Heap corruption via OCSP request double free from crafted multi-URL certificate in TLS client CVSS 4.0HIGH 8.2
- TI-2023-00414 MongoDB client C Driver may infinitely loop when validating certain BSON input data CVSS 3.1HIGH 7.5
- TI-2026-58386 Silent field truncation via unchecked int cast of huge JSON string values in JSON-to-BSON parser CVSS 4.0MEDIUM 6.3
Sources
- CVE-2026-93393 · CVE Program
- CVE-2026-93393 · NVD
- FIRST EPSS
- GHSA-x65h-hw7w-mq6w · GitHub Advisory Database · CC BY 4.0
- CVE-2026-93393 · Red Hat security data · CC BY 4.0
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