{"answers":{"affected":"It affects 1 product.","exploited":"There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16790 in the wild and no public exploit code.","fix":"Upgrade to a fixed version.","what":"CVE-2018-16790 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link."},"fix_prompt":"Check this codebase for CVE-2018-16790 and fix it if it is affected.\n\nWhat it is: CVE-2018-16790 is a high-severity memory corruption vulnerability in n/a, published on 10 Sep 2018. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.\nExploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2018-16790 in the wild and no public exploit code.\n\nAffected product: n/a. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.\n\nTask:\n1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.\n2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.\n3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.\n4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.\n5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.\n\nReference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16790/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16790/index.md)","id":"CVE-2018-16790","markdown":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16790/index.md","name":"CVE-2018-16790","record":{"aliases":["DEBIAN-CVE-2018-16790","GHSA-vmg6-94hc-5vqp","UBUNTU-CVE-2018-16790"],"analysis":{"component_type":"library","fix_type":"upgrade","impacts":["denial_of_service","data_read"],"network_reachable":"yes","non_default_config":false,"product_category":"libbson library","requires_auth":"none","summary":"A heap-based buffer over-read in libbson allows attackers to cause denial of service or read sensitive memory via crafted BSON data.","user_interaction":"required","vuln_class":"memory_corruption"},"analysis_generated_by":"qwen3.8-flash-next","assigner":"mitre","cpe":[{"product":"libbson","vendor":"mongodb"}],"cvss":{"score":8.1,"severity":"high","source":"nvd","vector":"CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H","version":"3.0"},"cwes":[{"id":"CWE-125","name":"Out-of-bounds Read"}],"description":"_bson_iter_next_internal in bson-iter.c in libbson 1.12.0, as used in MongoDB mongo-c-driver and other products, has a heap-based buffer over-read via a crafted bson buffer.","ecosystems":[],"exploits":{"exploitdb":0,"first_seen":null,"github_poc":0,"max_poc_stars":null,"metasploit":0,"nuclei":0,"refs":[],"tier":"none_known"},"has_fix":true,"headline":"Memory corruption in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16790","indexable":true,"kev":null,"kind":"cve","links":{"ecosystem":null,"product":null,"products":[],"type":"memory_corruption","year":"2018"},"n_packages":0,"n_references":3,"next":{"headline":"Hardcoded credentials in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16791"},"packages":[],"prev":{"headline":"Denial of service in n/a","id":"CVE-2018-16789"},"products":["n/a"],"published":"2018-09-10","related":[{"cvss_score":8.4,"headline":"MongoDB C Driver bson library may be susceptible to buffer overflow","id":"CVE-2025-0755","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2025-03-18"},{"cvss_score":4,"headline":"MongoDB C Driver bson_strfreev may be susceptible to integer overflow","id":"CVE-2024-6381","kev_date_added":null,"published":"2024-07-02"}],"sources":[{"class":"attribution","licence":"CVE Terms of Use (MITRE)","name":"CVE List","prefix":"CVE"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"US public information, NVD API terms","name":"NVD"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"CWE Terms of Use","name":"CWE (MITRE)"},{"class":"attribution","licence":"FIRST CVSS licence","name":"CVSS (FIRST)"}],"ssvc":{"automatable":null,"exploitation":null,"technical_impact":null},"state":"PUBLISHED","updated":"2025-11-03","vendors":["n/a"]},"summary":"A heap-based buffer over-read in libbson allows attackers to cause denial of service or read sensitive memory via crafted BSON data.","url":"https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2018-16790/"}