cvelist/2025/40xxx/CVE-2025-40906.json

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                "value": "BSON::XS versions 0.8.4 and earlier for Perl includes a bundled libbson 1.1.7, which has several vulnerabilities.\n\nThose include CVE-2017-14227, CVE-2018-16790, CVE-2023-0437, CVE-2024-6381, CVE-2024-6383, and CVE-2025-0755. \n\nBSON-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."
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                        "value": "CWE-1104 Use of Unmaintained Third Party Components",
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                "url": "https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2025/05/msg00012.html",
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                "url": "https://www.mongodb.com/community/forums/t/mongodb-perl-driver-end-of-life/7890",
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