CVE-2013-2132: Canonical Ubuntu Linux

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

bson/_cbsonmodule.c in the mongo-python-driver (aka. pymongo) before 2.5.2, as used in MongoDB, allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and crash) via vectors related to decoding of an "invalid DBRef."

Affected products

• Canonical Ubuntu Linux: version 12.04 only; version 12.10 only; version 13.04 only
• MongoDB MongoDB: up to and including 2.5.1; version 1.2.0 only; version 1.4.0 only; version 1.6.0 only; version 1.8.0 only; version 2.0.0 only; …
• Opensuse Opensuse: version 12.3 only

Published 2013-08-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.