Is CVE-2025-40906 in the CISA KEV catalog?

No. CVE-2025-40906 is not currently on the CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities list.

What is the CVSS severity of CVE-2025-40906?

CVE-2025-40906 has a CVSS v3 base score of 9.8 (CRITICAL).

What is the EPSS score for CVE-2025-40906?

CVE-2025-40906 has an EPSS score of 0.53% (41th percentile), estimating the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days.

CVE & CISA-KEV Catalog

CVE-2025-40906

CRITICAL

9.8

CVSS v3

NVD

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.

CWE-122Heap-based Buffer Overflow CWE-190Integer Overflow CWE-1104

CVSS v3 Vector

Exploitability

Attack VectorNetwork

Attack ComplexityLow

Privileges RequiredNone

User InteractionNone

ScopeUnchanged

Impact

ConfidentialityHigh

IntegrityHigh

AvailabilityHigh

CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Exploit Intelligence

0.53%probability of exploitation in 30 days

41stpercentile

Moderate risk: more likely to be exploited than 41% of all known CVEs.

References

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This product uses NVD data but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD. EPSS scores courtesy of FIRST.org (https://www.first.org/epss). Source: CISA KEV Catalog. Data as of 2025-09-05.