Security Bulletin: MongoDB Enterprised Advanced affected by: Missing Critical Step in Authentication (CVE-2026-40542)

Summary There are vulnerabilities in httpclient5-5.6.jar used in MongoDB Enterprised Advanced for IBM, involving CVE-2026-40542. The vulnerability has been addressed. Vulnerability Details CVEID:CVE-2026-40542 DESCRIPTION: Missing critical step in authentication in Apache HttpClient 5.6 allows an...

Linux Distros Unpatched Vulnerability : CVE-2026-40542

The Linux/Unix host has one or more packages installed that are impacted by a vulnerability without a vendor supplied patch available. - Missing critical step in authentication in Apache HttpClient 5.6 allows an attacker to cause the client to accept SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication without proper...

org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-cache (=5.6-alpha1), org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-fluent (=5.6-alpha1) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-40542 via org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 (=5.6-alpha1)

org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 MAVEN version =5.6-alpha1 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 and may be impacted: - org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-cache =5.6-alpha1...

org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-cache (=5.6-alpha1), org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-fluent (=5.6-alpha1) +2 more potentially affected by CVE-2026-40542 via org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 (=5.6-alpha1)

org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 MAVEN version =5.6-alpha1 is affected by a known vulnerability. The following packages have a transitive dependency on org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5 and may be impacted: - org.apache.httpcomponents.client5:httpclient5-cache =5.6-alpha1...

UBUNTU-CVE-2026-40542

Missing critical step in authentication in Apache HttpClient 5.6 allows an attacker to cause the client to accept SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication without proper mutual authentication verification. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.6.1, which fixes this issue...

CVE-2026-40542

Missing critical step in authentication in Apache HttpClient 5.6 allows an attacker to cause the client to accept SCRAM-SHA-256 authentication without proper mutual authentication verification. Users are recommended to upgrade to version 5.6.1, which fixes this issue...