Medium, CVSS 6.9GoPublished
mongo-go-driver has Heap Out-of-Bounds Read in GSSAPI Error Handling
CVE-2026-2303 · GHSA-cp6g-7hqx-qxhp
- Affected
- Go go.mongodb.org/mongo-driver/v2 < 2.4.2
- Fixed in
- 2.4.2· Vendor fix available
- Issue
- The mongo-go-driver repository contains CGo bindings for GSSAPI (Kerberos) authentication on Linux and macOS. The C wrapper implementation contains a heap out-of-bounds read vulnerability due to incorrect assumptions about string termination in the GSSAPI standard. Since GSSAPI buffers are not guaranteed to be null-terminated or have extra padding, this results in reading one byte past the allocated heap buffer.
Recommended action: Upgrade to 2.4.2 or later, then redeploy and verify.A vendor fix does not resolve your finding until you verify it in your own systems.