CVE-2025-40906 Information

Description

BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7 which has several vulnerabilities.

Those include CVE-2017-14227 CVE-2018-16790 CVE-2023-0437 CVE-2024-6381 CVE-2024-6383 and CVE-2025-0755.

BSON-XS was the official Perl XS implementation of MongoDB’s BSON serialization but this distribution has reached its end of life as of August 13 2020 and is no longer supported.

Reference

https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890