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.
CVE ID: CVE-2025-40906
CVSS Base Severity: CRITICAL
CVSS Base Score: 9.8
CVSS Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Vendor: MONGODB
Product: BSON::XS
EPSS Score: 0.06% (probability of being exploited)
EPSS Percentile: 19.15% (scored less or equal to compared to others)
EPSS Date: 2025-06-06 (when was this score calculated)