CVE-2026-2303

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.

  • Published Feb 10, 2026
  • CVSS 6.9 medium
  • 0.2% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days (EPSS)

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CVE-2026-2303 at the National Vulnerability Database