CVE-2026-96747

The MongoDB Python Driver client-side field level encryption support contains a vulnerability where a key management endpoint ending in .sock is incorrectly treated as a local Unix domain socket path instead of a remote host. An attacker with write access to encryption key metadata in the databas...

CVE-2026-96747 Forced local Unix socket connection via dot-sock KMS endpoint in client-side field encryption

The client-side field level encryption support in the MongoDB Python Driver can treat a key management endpoint value ending in ".sock" as a local Unix domain socket path rather than a remote host. A user with write access to the encryption key metadata stored in the database can cause an...