Intel

AIKIDO-2026-10440

lmdb is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation

Improper Input Validation Pre-CVE
Found by Aikido Intel before public disclosure or CVE publication.
Published Apr 1, 2026

55

Medium Risk

This Affects:

PYTHONlmdb
0.58.0 - 2.0.0
Fixed in 2.1.0
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TL;DR

Affected versions of this package bundled a vulnerable LMDB version that could trust malformed on-disk metadata without proper validation, allowing specially crafted data.mdb files from untrusted or tampered sources to trigger process crashes, arbitrary memory reads, heap corruption, NULL dereferences, and other memory-safety failures. An attacker might exploit this by convincing an application to open a malicious LMDB database file, causing denial of service or potentially leveraging the memory corruption conditions to influence process behavior and compromise confidentiality or integrity.

Who does this affect?

You are affected if you are using a version that falls within the vulnerable range.

Background info

lmdb is vulnerable to Improper Input Validation in versions 0.58.0 - 2.0.0.

How to fix this

Upgrade the lmdb library to the patch version.