CVE-2024-5629

Summary

CVE-2024-5629 is a newly disclosed vulnerability affecting the 'bson' module in PyMongo versions 4.6.2 and earlier. This issue permits an out-of-bounds read during deserialization of malformed BSON data from a Server. The malformed data can cause an exception to be raised, providing an attacker with potential access to arbitrary application memory. This vulnerability poses a serious risk to systems utilizing PyMongo for data processing and highlights the importance of keeping software up to date to mitigate security threats.

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